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Baffin Poems - Poems about Baffin


Premium Member The First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578
...The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578) The shortest distance to Cathay 1 (Land of riches: silks, teas and spices) Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2 Didn’t Barlow tell th......

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Categories: baffin, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving,
Form: Verse
Last One, Lord of the Flies
...In this world this feeling of being secluded and alone with only a cadre of youth that represents innocence and the wilderness In this whole wide world, the conch, the rule to speak some democr......

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Categories: baffin, allegory,
Form: Couplet



Narwhals
...I let a candy - cane striped tooth come out of my head The size of a sword, I let fear get out of me this time instead This can extend longer, I can sense if you come near me, baby No need to mi......

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Categories: baffin, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member In a Melting World
... The Inuit call the Narwhal the one that points to the sky, Because of their unique way of aiming their tusk upward; The scientific name Narwhal means one tooth and one horn, ......

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Categories: baffin, animal, fish, nature, water,
Form: Verse
Here On Ellesmere Island: a Facebook Status
...I come back to this page, again and again, wondering if anyone cares, least enough to leave a message, but I don't even care myself... and so days can turn to months and the silence remains ......

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Categories: baffin, computer-internet, friendship, nature, on
Form: Free verse



Spring Will Come
...SPRING WILL COME Small birds in draughty nests behind my brick chimney know that spring will come. Fixing the gutters in leaky boots, my son knows that spring will come. Herds of caribo......

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Categories: baffin, introspectionspring, spring, Grandson, mum,
Form: Verse
The Longest Day
...THE LONGEST DAY It’s an astronomical fact little-known That New Year’s Eve nineteen ninety one Was the longest the record will show. The sun set in the west at Heathrow As our plan......

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Categories: baffin, traveleve, sun,
Form: Narrative
Whaling In 1844
...WHALING IN 1844 All hands came aboard In March we left Deptford Bound for Greenland’s whales and Rather it was Wales’s green land. The lookout on the mainmast tied Saw her ......

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Categories: baffin, men, men,
Form: Couplet
Where Melting Ice Flows....
...Polar caps in melt will flow undulation currents blow... ocean,bay,rivers and streams tributaries from estuaries... The arctic,beaufort,and the baffin hudson,james,and the st.lawrence into 5 ......

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Categories: baffin, natural disasters, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse

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