Wicked Awesome Poem Wednesday

I Fished a Place


I fished a place like no other place

You'll ever find on Earth.

A place where the hard work and danger

Can, and should, reflect a man's worth.

I fished a place where the hours are long;

Sleep, rare, if at all.

A place where even the strong

Sometimes stumble and fall.

I fished a place where you spend countless hours

Pulling countless pots.

A place where the memory of her back home

Is thought with countless thoughts.

I fished a place where the weather can turn

Bad in the blink of an eye.

A place where are those who'll get hurt,

And some will even die.

I love this place

And the pride it's given me. You see,

Very few people on the face of this Earth can say,

"I've fished the Bering Sea."


-Larry Ryser