Man, Ships, and the Sea

Unburdened by the confines and limitations of more structured forms of writing, poetry exposes raw thought processes and establishes finer communication between the reader and the author's inner being. At the same time, poetry with a natural rhythm and beat sings to the very heart and soul. In Man, Ships, and the Sea, the tone of Joseph L. Bensinger's poems varies from whimsical and humorous to tragic, philosophical, and condemning as rhyme and meter capture the ever-shifting moods of man and sea and convey the ramifications of their interaction. This rich, unique, and impassioned collection is poetry as this writer believes it was originally intended-as a form of communication as rousing as the sound of music.