Life & Living (poem) by Ed Matlack on AuthorsDen

Life & Living
by Ed Matlack → (All Poetry by Ed Matlack)
Sunday, May 20, 2018 Rated "G" by the Author.

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That picture would be me & my dad...

I started out life quite young, Into the sea of life I was flung, Climbing the ladder of life rung by rung, Crawled through many piles of dung… I started life on the beach, Found myself drawn to the sea, I dug around in the sand, And crawled with help into my sea, To my mother out of reach, My father did of my swimming teach… Maybe this my late life insanity, Came from eating sand in abundance, Washing it down with salt water, Never said I was anything but a dunce… Slowly I did grow, Every summer day, Swimming, surfing, boating, The life of a beach bum, Then I got older and found rum, But that is totally another story, Sometimes unfortunately it turned out, To be quite altogether gory. © -ed- 5/20/18

Reviewed by Susanne Leist

Reviewed on May 23, 2018

It sounds like you lived life to the fullest.

Reviewed by Jane Noponen Perinacci

Reviewed on May 21, 2018

You are so cute in that picture!! You, by many of your works, are one with the sea and the love you have for it beams through your pen! Write on!!

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com

Ed ... u remind me of a couple of old Classics ...

Hemingway's "The Old Man & The Sea" ... and ...

Lines from "The Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner ...
" Water, water, everywhere... but not a drop to drink !"

Mariner - Sailor - Salt - Tar ...

We are All but grains of sand on Life's enormous Beach !

😎👍✌🏻😻

Reviewed by Mystic Rose

I have enjoyed the poem and the photo. Such a great collage of dear memories. Thanks for sharing.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Who is that little towheaded sand crawler in the picture? You never were that good looking (cute?). You gave up on the best part of the story in your poem at the end. Don't you know that readers like to read gory over glory 10 to 1!

Ron

Reviewed by John Herlihy

Great photo, Ed, to accompany an even greater poem. Great stuff.

Reviewed by Michael Schafer

Loved that first stanza. It's a classic and a keeper.

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce (Sandie Angel)

Reviewed on May 20, 2018

Consider yourself lucky that you are born near the sea. You have that all your life. A good place to grow up in.

Sandie

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton

You are born and raised by the sea. It is in you. Salt water runs through your veins. I like you very much, but Ed, lighten up on how much I know about women. I know what I know and that isn't much.

Reviewed by m j hollingshead

good to see you're writing again

NEVER STOP WRITING!

m