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Banff Poems - Poems about Banff

Premium Member GNRT DAY 25 HALFWAY IN DULUTH
... Since leaving Banff we’ve driven 1200 miles (as a nod to Deborah’s dad we drive only during the day!) and we’ve stopped for the night in 6 different spots along the way. So after driving 260 ......

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Categories: banff, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 21 A 27 FOOT PENGUIN AND SOME SWEET GRASS
... The Great Northern Road Trip is meant to follow Highway 2 from Washington to Maine. That’s how it was drawn up…that is how it is known but along the way (Seattle, Olympic, Glacier, Banff) we’ve t......

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Categories: banff, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member GNRT DAY 17 JOHNSON CANYON
... The indigenous people have occupied these lands for over 10,000 years in all… Their name for this beautiful place was Mini hrpa… which means Mountain Where The Water Falls So I imagine they......

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Categories: banff, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 16 TURTLE MOUNTAIN
... We planned this trip with forethought…it’s the way we both prefer but no matter how well we planned it…unexpected things occur: Today instead of using our GPS to take us to Banff I used a map ......

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Categories: banff, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member GNRT DAY 15 OH CANADA
...Today we bid goodbye to beautiful Glacier We’re traveling to a tiny house in Monarch, Canada…on our way to Banff Which is distressing for a person who love rhymes not because it won’t be beautiful......

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Categories: banff, peace, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member GNRT DAY 8 ANGELS
... For days I’ve been writing poems about our travels…let me now explain… We’re on the Great Northern Road trip driving US Highway 2 from Washington all the way to Maine. We’ll be veering off hea......

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Categories: banff, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Eternal Love
...If I could choose a moment, To be my eternity, It would be that one, Sitting above the Bow River, On that high Banff perch, Above the Rocky Mountains. And your head on my shoulder, A gentle ......

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Categories: banff, crush, cry, dream, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Starlight, Star Bright, a Million Light-Years Away
...Once I purchased a book about Total Recall It might be of Re-cap-i–tulation Rum-i-nation Or glorious immigrant stories…. But I failed to reach even a library spot… Too high a ladder. Yo......

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Categories: banff, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Related By Choice
...RELATED BY CHOICE For my adopted grandmother Nancy Enloe I met you at a friend’s house, standing stately on your cane, tall and rosy-cheeked like me. In your smile, I basked and thought, “L......

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Categories: banff, family, friendship, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
...I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went sear......

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Categories: banff, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Narrative
Phil Davenport
...RAF navigator Ron Day and I took of from Banff, Scotland, I was in the RAAF, an Australian, and we flew in formation: 40 Mosquitos to attack German ships in Norway land, In a harbour, Porsgrunn, b......

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Categories: banff, courage, hero, history, political,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Vacation: Lake Louise
...Of the places of wonder, to travel and wander I would return once again to the chasms of time Banff National Park is the jewel in the crown On the rim of the world where pure silence is found......

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Categories: banff, beautiful, beauty, nature, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Canmore
...Splashed carelessly aside poised, patiently resisting every earthen pull. Only you reside, carved statuette persisting tethered on stony mountain tops asking much of fortunes favor. Catching ......

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Categories: banff, beauty, mountains, nature,
Form: Acrostic
Our Family Valley
...OUR FAMILY VALLEY Mountains strong withstand the turmoil, Protect our valley from the storm. The river makes a fertile soil And seedling trees can start to form. The slopes are crowded with the......

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Categories: banff, nature, family, family,
Form: Verse
Top Ten Most Beautiful Sights I Have Seen
...TOP TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL SIGHTS I HAVE SEEN Photo of my wife holding a rose Some years ago in a hotel in Tallinn, Estonia. . . . . My newborn children all red and bright-eyed.. ......

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Categories: banff, happinessautumn,
Form: List

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