Best Klondike Poems

...All For A Klondike Bar!

 I would sail the mighty blue sea,
Tame a puffy green dragon to flip like a flea,
With the Queen have tea and crumpets dressed as a drag queen,
Run the Boston Marathon w......

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...You’ll never be an Olympic champion, Cecile,
After your accident on the ice,
Just walk, only,
There are so many beautiful things to do,
While walking, only, doubly,
Walking makes happy, calms th......

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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......

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...Skagway, Alaska in the late 1890s was sure a rowdy place alright!
It was seethin' with humanity a-raisin' hell all through the day and night!
'Twas the gateway to Chilkoot Pass beyond which lay Klond......

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...Limerick: Once a Politician on hunger strike

Once a Politician on hunger strike
Dreamed of juicy steaks Champagne and Klondike
Meantime ate humble pie
And promised not to die:
So they fed him ......

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...As I stagger to my room…my vision in a haze and my guts steering like a stew, my eyes 
look like a ripe red pepper and my bladder is filled up like a sponge that fell into a pool. 

My whole life ......

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...Skookum Jim wuz born the son uv a Chief uv the Tagish Injun tribe.
Ain't much known about his youth - ain't no totem left to describe.
'Tis known he wuz born in the Yukon where man struggles to sur......

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...She is very slender and her eyes are brown.
Her hair is lovely, long and dark.
Sometimes she wears colors in her hair or paints her nails.
When I visit at her house, she often scurries away
to be......

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Les C. More back from the vay-cay holidays,
giving my poetry peeps
a look-see at an odd Klondike meet




He ain’t nothing but
small potatoes
Trying to live
big-talk lettuce la......

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...klondike solitaire
devil won't play fair
red on black black on red
playing never a dread
it beats lonliness
without any mess......

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...In Skagway town, eighteen ninety-eight
Lived a young man, Elliot McKay.
He worked with his father selling dry goods,
To the miners heading Klondike-way,
They made some good coin in a day.

Elli......

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...She has an air about her, and
a soul that I admire;
a heart as pure as Klondike gold,
and words that so inspire.

Like rose of pink in morning mist,
her petals have a glow;
she’s l......

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...8/29/21


If I knew
Why did I do
What I knew
I shouldn't do

There's been a lot of damage taken
The devil continually advocated
I've successfully acclimated
It's gone beyond being infatuat......

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...the men of the north come will ye 
the sons of the south come to thee
seeking riches of Freya's tears
some never find it and some take years
some get sick and soon may die
others give up and sti......

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...Oh, you did not know Mrs. Klondike said.
Haughty, uppity, not nice in the least.
The festival has been moved and renamed.
The Aprillstica has been re-named?

No way!
I was horrified, shocked.
......

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