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
In a Melting World
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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