Great offering Felix!!

Love Tinka

Excellent write!

Superb nostalgic write Felix, it's sad so much is taken from us.

Paul;-)

Great write Felix.
I'm sorry it has taken me so long to read and review your poetry. I've had so little internet access over the past two months. Please know that I have appreciated your support of my poetry.

Thanks for sharing this. I found it thought-provoking and interesting.
Take care
Chanti

technology is a harsh mistress. unfortunately, she has us all by the you know what. no way to get her out of our lives now. but i am quite grateful for your poem, as it reminds us of the people who for generations cared about their fellow mans life. yes felix, this is a shining example of humanity...and all puns intended. ~ sara

excellent write.... more stories and fables which we'll tell to our grandchildren...

relatively close to where i live, out on Long Island there are two lighthouses, one at Fire Island and the other at Montauk that have computerized signal systems ... it's sad to know the legacy of the lighthouse keeper is becoming just a memory ...

excellent poem, Felix ...

More and more the lighthouses are no longer a home to a family, simply an automated signal into the night; her charm now only skin deep and her warning sent without a care attached to her purpose. One day the lighthouses will all be torn down, I suspect, and the image that has meant so much to those who have sailed the seas for generations, will only be seen through the poetry they have left behind. Excellent nostalgic write, Felix.
Take care,
Sherry

This is poignant and evocative, Felix. I have thought a lot about this tragedy of the automation of lighthouses when a very special person, or group of persons, have lived their whole lives - as you say, often generationally - manning these places manually so that lives might be saved. A unique job for unique persons. That degree of both solitude and mystery must be something that you can't readily be torn away from - and you have described that invasive "haunting" of body and soul very well. You excel when you are sailing the poetic high seas and surviving the pounding swell, as in this write. Hope you're well, Big Man, lol Kate xx

Modern times do put a damper on the old proven ways where we all had a hand in it. Nicely done with a great touch of nostalgia.