Poetry Thursday courtesy NRU

Found this lovely piece on the Navy's tradition of having the first log being written in verse.

This excerpt was too lovely not to have as the entry for Poetry Thursday.

Through heavy winds

and pitch and list

our thoughts encompassed

by those we miss.

As hours turn to days

and days to months

we think of the place

we came from once.

We think of the people

of our country.

We think of how thankful

we are to be free.

As we continue to send

Strength From the Sea.

- Jonathon Lee Wenrich, Philadelphia

Quartermaster, 3rd Class

aircraft carrier Carl Vinson