I Wonder (By Drum Major A Wilson) Poem by Andrew Wright

I Wonder (By Drum Major A Wilson)



I wonder what she really is, and what her name will be
I often try to picture her as she takes us out to sea,
I don't expect a beauty, as I know there will be few,
But even if she's very old, for us I am sure she'll do,
Her beauty and her colour and her style might all be gone,
Maybe she's not working, but lying idle, all alone,
But on that day she does her job, off her path she will not roam,
But comrades keep your chins up, she's the boat that takes us home.

Saturday, July 15, 2017
Topic(s) of this poem: hope,war memories
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Andrew Wright was a Prisoner of War, captured at Dunkirk. This poem is taken from a notebook he kept while in the POW camps. Where he attributes the poem to an individual I have included that attribution. Andrew Wright died in 1987.
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