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Baffin Poems - Poems about Baffin


Premium MemberThe 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 MemberIn 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

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