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Prospector’s Ship Comes In
Prospector’s Ship Comes In

I’ll stake my claim
and so exact the most
from this, my richest find,
the prize of years of toil
at the masthead of my ship
of fate, my endurance
being the stays that
held my course so true.


Line count: 8
Free verse
For Express It In Eight, April 05 2021
Prompt: Exact, Claim, Stay.
Note: Sorry, could not resist the temptation to use each word in its alternative sense.
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