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    Poems of The Sea
    Poems of The Sea
    Poems of The Sea
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    Poems of The Sea

    By Charles Wylie

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    As a seaman I have spent so much time afloat that the sea has almost become my natural environment, so this 9th of nine eBooks, complementing those of Love, Friends, Mystery, Parting and Grief, Faith and Family, Fun, and Heroes and Indignation, should give you a feel for the thrill of being at sea whether in a warship or a sailing boat.

    After 38 years in the Royal Navy, and a lifetime of sailing, I still get a thrill as the bow lifts to the first wave on leaving harbour. I hope that comes across in these verses and that you will find the same kind of enjoyment from it all that I do.

    Bon voyage!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles Wylie
    Release dateDec 16, 2013
    ISBN9781311071651
    Poems of The Sea
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    Charles Wylie

    Charles Wylie is a professional British seaman and an amateur dinghy and yacht sailor. He is the luckiest man on the planet, being husband to Jean, father of four, grandfather to nine and godfather to ten. Poetry is a hobby, together with sailing, chess, Scottish Country Dancing, languages, and a variety of other pursuits. He is tickled pink to have been headhunted at the age of 78. As a seaman he had visited all the continents in ships by the age of 21 at over 50 ports and had survived his destroyer being bombed in the Korean War when only just 17 years old. He attributes a reasonable command of the English language to his education at Taunton's Grammar School in Southampton, which set him up for life in four short years. He is particularly grateful to the Royal Navy for its having been a father figure and a source of immense pride for over 65 years. The navy promoted him 10 times, but because he started as a Boy Seaman that means he achieved only the modest rank of Commander (happy with that.) His naval friends (to whom he pays equal respect) range from Able Seamen to Admirals.He is an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, a Freeman of the City of London and a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute.His poetry was written for himself (and occasionally for family or friends) and is published now after many years of friendly badgering by dear ones. Self-publishing through Smashwords was chosen because he is confident that no modern publisher would want to publish his generally old-fashioned rhyming and scanning verses.Charles is a happy man, much blessed.

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      Poems of The Sea - Charles Wylie

      You really should publish your poems.

      -Many chums. (All my friends are kindly.)

      There's should be a comma at the end of the seventh line…

      -A helpful nit-picker.

      Not bad.

      -My wife. (Well, she would, wouldn't she?)

      Please send your own comments to:

      POEMS OF THE SEA

      Book 9 of 9 books of poetry by Charles Wylie

      eBooks by Charles Wylie published at Smashwords

      Cover design by www.jeremytaylor.eu

      Sailor/Poet Series One

      LOVE (23 poems)

      Sailor/Poet Series Two

      FRIENDS (44 poems)

      MYSTERY (56 poems)

      NATURE (29 poems)

      PARTING AND GRIEF (29 poems)

      Sailor/Poet Series Three

      FAITH & FAMILY (56 poems)

      FUN (40 poems)

      HEROES & INDIGNATION939 poems)

      THE SEA (36 poems)

      Memoires

      First Words, Last Words (to be published in 2014)

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      eBooksByCharlesWylie

      What others are saying about 'Poems of The Sea'

      Introduction

      Poems of The Sea

      Captain R D Butt CBE Royal Navy

      Judgement

      Touching Nelson

      Passing Thoughts

      First Command

      Haiku - Reflection On His First Command

      On A Seaman's Youth And Age

      The Nelson Oak

      Farewell To SAM

      Haiku - Submarine

      Kit Auction

      Denzil And The Storm

      Why The Gulls Cry At Kenton

      Let The Sea Bed Be My Bed

      The Canvas Of The Sky

      Debt To The Heroes

      A Beat To Windward In The Solent

      Ibi Sed Per Gratia Dei Vadeo

      West Solent Cruise

      Bembridge, Bembridge

      The Forecast's Been Wrong For A Week

      Middle Watch Storm At HSC

      Beware The South Bramble

      Officer Of The Watch

      Confusion At The Tate

      Rules Of Engagement

      A Band Of Rain

      Brits And The Sea

      A Sorry Dick

      Middle Watch Musings

      The Albatross And The Wave

      Ghosts At The NMM

      An Englishman on Utah Beach

      The Colregs

      Dilemma

      Arctic Star

      About the Author

      Acknowledgements

      A word from the author about you

      Warning

      eBooks by Charles Wylie

      INTRODUCTION

      Have you tried writing poetry? It's great fun, and if I can do it, anyone can. With any luck, these verses of mine will get you going. If you want to see what an ordinary mortal can do, then read on. You don't have to be anyone special to be able to put your thoughts down in poetry. I've collected mine in categories of LOVE, FRIENDS, MYSTERY, NATURE, PARTING & GRIEF, FAITH & FAMILY, FUN, HEROES & INDIGNATION, and THE SEA (I'm a sailor/poet.

      By the way, nearly all of them rhyme and scan in the good old-fashioned style.

      This book by Charles Wylie holds some of over 240 poems published in 9 books in three series (1, 2 and 3). Series 1 contains just one free book (of LOVE poems) to whet your appetite. The other two series contain over 150 and 170 poems respectively. Some poems appear in more than one category. See the list of other books at the end.

      The author (click on ‘About the author’ in the Table of Contents) makes no claim to literary excellence, but wrote all the poems for his own satisfaction. Charles claims that some of them have merit, but all have been included (warts and all) for the sake of completeness, at the request of family and friends. Unusually, most of the poems have a short introductory note to widen the reader’s experience. All the poems are in chronological order of composition, with the date in the 'By' line.

      Here we go, then; just turn the page.

      Poems of the Sea

      (Most of my poems are preceded by notes intended to enhance the reader's understanding and enjoyment of the verses.)

      Note. Ronnie Butt was my Captain, and I was his Navigating Officer (‘Pilot’ by nickname) in Her Majesty’s Ship ARETHUSA, built at Cowes in the Isle of Wight, southern England; she was commissioned into service in 1964 and we served together all over the world for nearly three years. He was so admired by his ship’s company that when the HMS ARETHUSA Association was formed he was the natural choice for President. The association, of all ranks, still meets for an annual weekend reunion, decades later. I wrote this before he died, and another afterwards.

      CAPTAIN R D BUTT CBE ROYAL NAVY

      By Charles

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