This is a short free verse (Non-rhyming) poem I wrote this morning after reading an article on Afloat.ie about a boatbuilder in Roscommon who passed away at the age of 94.
Clearly Jimmy Furey had almost a century of craftsmanship experience and I imagine such mastery can easily die out as modern society has become dependent on Chinese made goods that are shipped in when we clearly need to turn the tide as an island nation facing a Brexit, post-Coronavirus storm.
This Lockdown Voice is sadly a farewell to an era of craftsmanship and a master boatbuilder and I wonder if he will receive a Norsemen farewell and his boats burned, as an era comes to an end.
LEADERSHIP
Craftmanship
If we want to stay afloat, we should learn to build a boat
Local craftsmen celebrated
Handmade, homemade
not shipped in from abroad
The bible is full of boatbuilders
and Climate Change deniers
but are we all in the same boat?
Small boats lead to big boats
big boats keep us all afloat
Such talent should never die out
We must bridge the generation gap
but I am just a hack, I'll close my mouth
A wordsmith, no gold nor blacksmith
but I hope you have an extra paddle
when the creek hits the fan
Our society is not exactly shipshape and we just lost some legendary leadership
June 22nd 2020
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