This is the first of the poems shared on the Wonderful Wander as part of the 4 Corners Festival 2020. We started from the Dock with the inimitable Chris Bennett, and this piece was inspired by him, the vision behind The Dock chaplaincy and cafe, and the dry dock which sits alongside it, currently occupied by the SS. Nomadic, and indeed the old shipyards as a whole. It owes more than a touch to Karine Polwart's "You Can't Weld a Body." More to follow...
A place for the crafting of craft
Creating from steel, boats to float afar
A community wedded to welding and riveting
Wedded to a past that sailed away
A place for fitting out and refitting
Repairing and restoring returning sons and daughters
Battered by the oceans and scarred by salt seas
But ships aren’t shaped to stay forever in the dock
Shalom
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