Proverbs from a Fisherman

You can cast the net deep
Or you can cast it out wide
Just don't attempt both
The ocean cures pride.

Be certain to keep
A small reserve set aside
For what is an oath
To the rising tide?

Make sure that you sleep
On your back, aye, never hide
Your eyes from the truth
All storms will subside.

Reviews

[Elisa Laura]

The sea is holy to me. I liked this piece, because it's your respect to it, when I fished it was always watching... never had a net.. not either an fishing rod. I watched, and watched... and one day a little baby shark capsized my boat. I guess that was fantastic.

Well written piece, p.s. I was not bored this time ;)

E.L.

[KT]

Beautiful. :) Very captivating, imaginative, colorful. I felt like I was at the beach. Awesome writing!

[Henry]

The ocean is one of a poet's regular lovers. And you know how to love it very well. These are legit proverbs, and they will stick in my mind. Awesome. The ocean really is an instructor of life.

- Henry

[h d e rushin]

Talk about superstitions and myths; I was a sailor in the US navy during the
Vietnam war on a warship with canons, torpedo tubes and nuclear capacity
but our number one superstition was to NEVER let a woman come on deck
before the ship was to be deployed. In fact, if a woman would even walk
near the bow of the ship, the captain wouldn't move an inch until, at least,
24 hours had passed. It had more to do with the luff of the wind than the
bad luck of the woman....Thankfully, those days are gone.

I appreciate your nautical themes sir. Were you a sailor like me?
"all storms will subside" dana

[Kenneth S.]

If your name was Les, I'd tell you to write a song about a guy named John.

[emrick]

Very educative.
I like they ryhme scheme and its easy flow.
its a beautiful poem,beautiful like a calm sea.

[Chris G. Vaillancourt]

Nicely executed

[Laura Maidah]

Okay. PM me with your author's intention. This is so sage. Oceans of pride-curing, oath-combatting ineptitude? That's just one reading. Oy

[Van Mark]

This makes me think of my father, the eternal fisherman.
Very simple, easy to read and the flow was just perfect, I am particularly fond of the first stanza. There is some deep truth there.

[allie_arrowz]

i really like this. very well written.
kinda calming, too.
like the ocean.
:)