Comment from patcelaw

Excellent

How could anyone read the title off this and not have it conjure up in the mind about this little tug. It is amazing how such little tug can manage to push much larger loads up and down the river. Patricia

 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you, Patricia. Yes, it is amazing.

Comment from sweetwoodjax

Excellent

this is an excellent write, treischel, you did an excellent job writing this poem about the little tub boat that works so hard. I enjoyed reading it. made me smile, I like pantoums but haven't been able to write one of them yet

 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you Sweetwoodjax, it's not too bad, once you write the first Quatrain, you have the first and third line on the next, plus the two lines for the last stanza. So I just mark out a note book page to number the lines of the 4 quatrains. Then every time you write a line it goes in two places. I wrote Down the first line sat the last line right away. Then the second line bus the first line of the second stanza. Then the third line becomes the second line of the last stanza, and the fourth line becomes the third Lind of the next stanza. So, you are really only writing 6 new lines to create a 12 line poem,

Comment from William Ross

Excellent

very good on the tug boat, nicely written, I love these things, would love to own one make a nice house boat. been on a few tugs, Thanks for the share and have a great day

 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you William.

Comment from Pantygynt

Excellent

The power in these small craft is immense I have seen similar on the Rhine in Germany, which is a fast flowing river and when stuff goes upstream eavy laden they create a huge bow wave as their speed through the water is quite fast but they move pretty slowly over the bottom.

this is a great pantoum whose rythms chug to the beat of Ugh's poerful engine. I'm not sure what you mean by,

"So small for such a trough ordeal."

It is repeated so presumably is meant. I understand trough as a something farm animals eat and drink from. Did you perhaps mean rough or tough or am I about to learn some Mississippi patois.

 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you Pantygynt. It's a typo. Should read "tough".

reply by Pantygynt on 25-May-2016

I thought as much.

Comment from foxangie123

Excellent

This is really a neat write. I haven't been around tug boats often but they are so neat how they carry such a large ship through the water. It's good.

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 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you foxangie, they are neat wpand powerful.

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A great Pantoum with a little humor and playful with Ugh the tug and Chug-a-lug worked in the rhyming scheme it just have a ring. Great photo as well.

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 Comment Written 24-May-2016

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reply by the author on 24-May-2016

Thank you Sandra.