Small Cornish harbour end of day
Tacking in from a choppy sea
Call the Master for a berth
Tie up, safe home
Steering through the Channel lanes
Ferries slam past, container vessels loom
Into Cherbourg calling with school French
Master chuckles, welcomes us in
Sliding slantwise into Plymouth
Fighting the wind all the way
Naval Frigate spinturns to miss us
Master reproachful to us each
Copyright © 2017 Kim Whysall-Hammond
The Cheesesellers Wife 
Good fun, somehow reminiscent of Masefield
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Yes, I was obliquely referencing him!
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I’m so pleased I spotted that link, then
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