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We Went On the Boat - a Sonnet For David

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It was our pride and joy, that boat...our prize. We'd sail to Key West every year in fall, After summer downpours left the noon. We made our pact there as we both had suffered from the plague ungluing all our lives. Now, I'm here next to his pallid body - pale blue masque on, jaw aslack, grotesque. He made the leap; he had escaped, was gone Upon a journey I could not attend. He left me all alone to to sail solo. Yet, he was captain and I his lowly mate. Who would pull the spinnaker to catch the breeze? Or talk with me as a person, unaffected? Now, I was all alone just cast upon the water... I sold that boat...

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Beata Agustin

Date: 8/15/2023 7:19:00 AM

Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts filled with nostalgia through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

Leo Larry Amadore

Date: 5/16/2021 5:11:00 PM

I read your sonnet with interest and a great deal of empathy -- my condolences for your loss and my hopes for eventual lessening of your pain. You made a fitting and proper poetic eulogy. Thank you for letting us read it.

Line Gauthier

Date: 2/4/2021 9:21:00 PM

Very touching ~ lovely to find your poem published in the 2020 PS Anthology.

Cathleen Weissenborn

Date: 10/22/2020 10:08:00 AM

Wow. I wasn't expecting that. Brought tears to my eyes. It is said that Death ends a life down here as we know it, but it cannot end the relationship. I have found this to be overwelmingly true. The relationship is of the soul, the spirit and lives on.

Orochi C. Joshua

Date: 9/20/2020 4:53:00 PM

Well penned tribute to a beloved amigos. Very touching

Anisha Dutta

Date: 9/17/2020 8:57:00 PM

Life is like that. Well-penned. Iam touched. Blessings.

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:36:00 PM

Thanks!

David Walker

Date: 9/17/2020 12:45:00 PM

A sad passing of the tourch. Are we ever ready? Again, I love the story in the way it is told.

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:36:00 PM

Thanks!

James Marshall Goff

Date: 9/17/2020 11:41:00 AM

Richard...as a reader of this well crafted poem...I was pulled in with line 1...the best poets always accomplish such method..."It was our pride and joy, that boat...our prize" notice the elipsis after boat! one is allowed to imagine their journey of pride and joy...how very delightful! Lovely work...jmg

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:37:00 PM

Thanks!

Lorraine Peterson

Date: 9/17/2020 11:40:00 AM

sounds like you lost the love of your life

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:37:00 PM

One of them, yes. Thanks!

Carol Louise Moon

Date: 9/17/2020 11:17:00 AM

I absolutely love this poem. A fav, for sure. My husband and I aren't sailors, but boaters on 27 foot Tug up in Canadian water. This is a well crafted poem.

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:38:00 PM

Thanks!

Mahtab Bangalee

Date: 9/14/2020 11:52:00 PM

Now, I was all alone just cast upon the water...sad not the last line; wide, wide alone on the wide, wide water......I enjoyed this poem; ....MB of BD

Dr Richard A Martin Jr
Date: 9/17/2020 9:38:00 PM

Thanks!