Best Chinook Poems
Below are the all-time best Chinook poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of chinook poems written by PoetrySoup members
Chinook Wind
No lies to the heart she says only
ties will do to the lonely, To
make a union of two hearts that makes
a reunion of...
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Categories:
chinook, love, mystery, nature
Form:
I do not know?
T'was The Night Before Christmas
T'was the night before Christmas, all children were in bed
Elves were loading the sleigh, for Santa's big night ahead
A heavy fall of fresh snow had...
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Categories:
chinook, christmas, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Cruise To AlaskaThe trip was a riot of color,
It brings a myriad of queries,
Fantastic tales of utter darkness,
Views' visible roots were explored.
Mainsail surges,
pungent froth carried wave...
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Categories:
chinook, analogy, appreciation, mountains, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Fo'c's'le - A Dream
fo'c·'sle /'fohksel/ noun deriv: forecastle
1. the forward part of a ship below the deck,...
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Categories:
chinook, boat, endurance, history, native
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
ANGELS IN MY HEAD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8nJSe8Jb0
Dreams are made of fairy dust and gold my mom once said
as she tucked me in real tight and kissed my sleepy head
you will...
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Categories:
chinook, appreciation, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Spirit In The FluteI walk an already trodden path...
Uncertain, of future lives that lie ahead
But, in faith I close these earthly Ojibwa eyes
In trill, thus, I hear the...
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Categories:
chinook, native american, autumn,
Form:
Ode
THAW AT CROWSNEST PASSTHAW AT CROWSNEST PASS
Huge mountains massed and cliffs sheer. ...
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Categories:
chinook, nature, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Little Lady Bug
Little lady bug by my window how pretty you look
with your fragile wings and sweet tiny polka dots
Fate brought you to me...
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Categories:
chinook, appreciation, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Kananaskis isKananaskis is
four-fifths a line of haiku
Kananaskis is
With spring’s sudden warmth
serial avalanches thunder
one triggers the next
Winter’s snow melting
laughing, leaping, running to
valley...
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Categories:
chinook, memory,
Form:
Haiku
Alaska, The Last FrontierAlaska; 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...
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Categories:
chinook, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form:
Verse
Butterfly Beachso this is where butterflies go to die
atop this burning ochre beach
amidst the palomino stones
party streamers
chinook bones.
Chrysalis flutes swaying
beyond dunes, blue and gray
under a...
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Categories:
chinook, beach, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Soul Stance River - 34
All we eat is elk meat, boiled elk, roasted elk, elk jerky
sometimes fried elk if we get bear or whale oil,
oh, and sometimes elk soup,
for...
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Categories:
chinook, adventure, introspection,
Form:
Epic
Soul Stance River - 30
The Columbia is a smooth beast that has introduced us to a semi tropic clime
that produces a bewildering humidity even for November
and a panoply of...
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Categories:
chinook, adventure,
Form:
Epic
Soul Stance River - 33
Fort Clatsop is up and true,
50 feet square, with a smokehouse, pallisades, barracks and two gateways
furnished from the aromatic and reliable wood of the great...
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Categories:
chinook, adventure, business,
Form:
Epic
ORIENT EXPRESSA
chinook
silently
melts the lying
snow...
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Categories:
chinook, seasons,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
Unquotable quotes: friends - XV, Part One
If you stick your neck out for a friend, you’re likely to lose your head.
A friend is a potential enemy in disguise as a loving...
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Categories:
chinook, father daughter, friendship, fun,
Form:
Epigram
The Old Red BarnThe old red barn seems to grow up through the dust and brown
Along the vague dirt road that mars the sage.....
The rhythm played by rain...
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Categories:
chinook, song,
Form:
Free verse
Star PowerA Little Boy’s gun with a barometric trigger,
showed a Fat Man how to
blot out an Empire’s rising sun.
Proliferation’s need pushed
Sellafield and Kyshtym to trip chasing...
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Categories:
chinook, cancer, death, environment, pollution,
Form:
Free verse
A SEASON FOR CHANGEWhen the final Autumn leaf spirals to the ground,
and a warm Chinook breeze is no longer found.
Bears retreat to their seasonal slumber,
as snowflakes approach in...
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Categories:
chinook, nature, seasons, autumn,
Form:
Free verse
Killed in ActionWar
Enlist list
Signed sheets
Quick and easy
It's all so cheesy
Come home soon, please
Chinook ride overseas
She sends a letter
I've felt better
Worthless
Mortars
Night raids
Humanitarian aid
A spade's a spade
All this just...
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Categories:
chinook, war
Form:
Free verse
Too MuchI like talking to you too much
the way you think and dream and dare
I like talking to you too much
drawn like a flame pulls in...
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Categories:
chinook, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Purple Loosestrife
Spring charges the air
I feel it; I swear.
A sense of touch that gets felt;
nature is waking
winter’s grip breaking
as snow and ice start to melt.
Geese are...
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Categories:
chinook, 10th grade, beautiful, image,
Form:
Verse
TWO RIVERS Two rivers flowing; one is warm and pleasant like a chinook wind,
While the other is cold and swift and boulders roll with the current.
One we...
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Categories:
chinook, religion
Form:
I do not know?
KansasBorn in the mid west, a long time ago
in the sunflower state where the prairie grass grows
she would spend many days, sharing stories and dreams
Tho'...
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Categories:
chinook, family, nostalgia,
Form:
Narrative
TWO FOR FEBRUARYTWO FOR FEBRUARY
i’m crossing fingers
mild february thus far
blue skies atlas smiles
blue bird on the wing
color against winter’s nap
harbinger of spring
Dave Austin
*inspired by...
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Categories:
chinook, nature,
Form:
Haiku