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The Fisherman and his Wife

This is a story of very old fisherman and his wife it's not a story many told about their tragic life they married young ,no children had to each they often clung his daily job would make her sad for lives the sea had sung She'd waved him off each day at dawn from window balcony the stormy day, so some would say would be the last he 'd see She'd waited daily , for loves' return but never did he come they say she couldn't understand her grief to much, said some Daily from her window watch the village saw her be then one day she disappeared for never did they see The story is her grief to much she walked down to the sea last saw upon the beach that day the sea together be.

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Date: 1/21/2025 10:39:00 AM
Nice poem. It hearkens back to the 1800's and earlier when the women would watch their men return from the sea. Tough loss. I like the ending. It puts a finality to it all
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Date: 1/19/2025 3:04:00 AM
A tragic story. It can happen, I suppose. I like such tales.
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Jacqueline Elston
Date: 1/19/2025 5:54:00 AM
hi Victor. It actually was a true story that l read about. l cant find the link where it was, but it happened in Cornwall UK l think about 1800's . The couple had a house on the seafront where the wife would wave him off every morning from her window. The crew died in a storm, never found, but his young wife was grief stricken .Then she just disappeared, story is she walked into sea.

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