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# Old Boat and the Sea
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/old-boat-and-the-sea/
- Published: 2025-04-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: On the shores of a distant and alien sea, such as Man hasn't seen, nor is likely to see, lies an old fishing boat of an ancient design. Of its owner or fisherman, nary a sign.
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

On the shores of a distant and alien sea,  
such as Man hasn't seen, nor is likely to see,  
lies an old fishing boat of an ancient design.  
Of its owner or fisherman, nary a sign.

As it lies on its side on the purplish sand,  
under skies of a color it can't understand,  
and awash in the glow of a sinister moon,  
it still longs for the tide - doesn't cry, doesn't swoon,  
doesn't wallow or howl, but just lies there, and longs…

'Cause the sea, even alien, is where it belongs.