This is a poem I wrote in the 1990's when they put the moratorium on the cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador. I remember when we got the news about the moratorium I felt so sad as I sat in my seat in the Labrador College in Cartwright Labrador. The poem is titled.
Song Of The Sea
Where are the fishermen in from the sea,
Dancing their jigs in the old schoolhouse
Eating fish-n-brewis before dawn
Where are the children
tasting the salt tails of the fish
as they spread them on the flakes,
Wives hanging clothes on lines
in the warm sunshine
Where are the fishing boats
with groove worn gunnels
from jigger lines
Nets just taken from the ocean
kelp still clinging to the mesh
lying on the wharf
Where have the codfish gone?
Oh lonely village, weatherbeaten,
gray, ghostly,
No more laughter or old-fashioned times
Old man telling his stories no more.
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