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Cherry

By Parson Thru

Fri, 14 Aug 2020
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I sit beneath a whispering tree
Without a care to bother me
And watch the water's surface fold
To every river craft that's sold
Then close together in its wake
As aft each loamy Nordic strake
That feeds the nettle and the dock
Where fendered cruisers bump and rock

Certificate U
Poem
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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thank you! X

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Really liked the first 5 lines. Wasn't quite sure of the meaning of the next two, though thought it was a picture of the wake reaching the riverbank, with nettle, dock and tethered boats?. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thanks Rhiannon. Complete piece of luck. Strake rhymes with wake and turns out to be a longitudinal timber or piece of rubber that runs along the hull of a ship. The website helpfully showed a Viking longboat with one. Kerching! Idea pops out of nowhere to fit the situation.

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Submitted by Parson Thru on

Thinking about it, my partner's father and I spent hours losing skin fitting a rubbing strake to a boat I had. How could I have forgotten that?

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