<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=572791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So We'll No More Go A Fishing (or Roving)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we'll no more go a fishing<br>only father proud son<br>quiet strength of huddled waiting<br>sharing enough reason.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the needs of strength and caring<br>ribbed rose catch gasp in ice ballet<br>to cease our bellies yearning<br>as reindeer jump in relays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And walrus hide and ivory sled sob<br>when ice flow thins to rupture<br>when leviathan moves near under<br>and unknowing our small lives rob.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And thrown lance unfolds whale fat pearls<br>then smeared on faces deep bond and cold home<br>and whale bone pots of oil roam<br>when women join in death’s twirl.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll no more go a ice hole fishing<br>dressed in bear fur hide<br>behind laughing huskies racing<br>as pup seals glide on neap tide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Autumn ice flow thickens<br>And a boys eyes worship dad less<br>And clotted venous warmth still quickens<br>And migratory birds dream of the South’s nests.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ice saw teeth break and blunt<br>on the dirt and dead flesh frozen.<br>And on the youthful promises broken<br>the Northern winter’s sun sunk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We'll no more go a ice hole fishing<br>only father proud son.<br>Laughing others go ice skating<br>ashamed now I was one.<br>And polar warming kills traditions<br>as my father’s fading vision.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(This poem relates to Inuit traditonal whaling and fishing. The author does not sapport modern industrial whaling.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Housiaux">Philip Housiaux</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=572791" data-title="So We'll No More Go A Fishing (or Roving) de Philip Housiaux" data-description="So we'll no more go a fishing only father proud son quiet strength of huddled waiting sharing enough reason. Through the needs of strength and caring ribbed rose catch gasp in ice ballet to cease our bellies yearning as reindeer jump in relays. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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