Best Alaskan Poems

She, Of The Cosmic Essence
Aware Of A Power
Aware Of A Presence
And Aware Of The Need For Our
Desire To Rise Higher
… and Higher
To Our Optimum Height
Patricia...

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The full moon and milky snow illuminate the nighttime landscape I found myself lost on the mountain. 

   I have to make a...

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nurture me 
a wish circular neon bright to hold

mould me
tears - as painted leaves from trees fall 

sleep me
a dream in the dreary radiance of...

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My silky ivory coat keeps me warm in the artic climate,
my keen senses search for prey in the Alaskan wilderness-
When I encounter the mighty mount...

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Here they are before me, 
   surreal in the dazzling morning sun.
      Against clear skies of blue, and
peaked...

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Upon Sarah Palin,
The media is wailing,
While economy is failing,
A woman will do,
For fault to pursue,

But as governor in her state,
Things are looking great,
Alas,,,,,ka,,,,,ha,
We make our...

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A woman in Alaska,
With her brother on a hike,
Never dreamed that on a bathroom break
Unpleasantness would strike.

She sat down on the toilet
In an outhouse near...

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I'm Restless and defeated
Feeling overwhelmed and cheated
My Plate about to topple
Don't you dare pop that waffle
Shut your mouth and the door
Clean the dog pee off...

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2012

Hungry reader, wild sea lover, wordsmith, listener of dreams and lies

Daughter of beloved parents –strong-- longingly and sorely missed

Left Alaska, empty nester, wrote a book...

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It's remarkable how strong denial can be,
It appears that the wise have it right,
As a race, we prefer to love flattering liars,
(Sticking head in the...

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Of all the great vacations I've been on-
     the ones abroad and those on land and sea,
the place to which my...

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Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates the landscape.
The...

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A land of ice and snow, a picture perfect postcard,
It is here I walk alone, lost in thought, of glories utter
Amazement surrounding me.
Draped across the...

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Oh mothers of the world stand before your mirrors of
Self-reflections, now gather all kindred near, now just 
For one moment imagine them disappearing, vaporizing into
The...

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It's too hot and humid for September!
Even dust specks descending in the room's sunlight
are beads of sweat running down my sides.
I bring pencil, crossword and...

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