Still flows the river, on the ebbing tide

I’ve watched those ships come and go

since I was a child

Still flows the river. Each and every day

I’ve watched those ships on the river

Coasters and tankers, waved them on their way

The River flows out to the estuary

Red and green buoys keep the channel safe

Seagulls follow the leaving ships

For flotsam and jetsam in their propeller wake

At a rate of knots they pass the Mersey bar

Then it’s out on to the Irish Sea

and Atlantic Ocean to a port so far way

Sail away to a new seaport today!

 

At the High tide I watch the ships come and go

Leaving the docks for far off foreign lands

I hear maritime stories from old sea dogs

Told on the Mersey bar in the Baltic fleet

Shipwrecks on the shifting sands

Ellan Vannin sunk in storms and waters deep

Ships on the river, Sailing on the evening tide

I’ve watched those ships come and go

since the sunrise

Ships on the river docking on the port side

Glass tower sentinels look out

Cormorant’s stone eyes….

Six sided clocks keeping perfect maritime……

John Hall