Best Lakes Poems

You taste as if twilight were—
lavender swirling like smoke from the earth
licorice lingering with the full moon’s soft pull
a sweetness both dark and divine.

Your skin sparkles with starlight
electric and soft as moth wings.
We sip the pink sky
lemonade lakes cascade through our fingers
time unspools between our...

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“Sacred Lakes”



There is magic 
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo 
busy under cover of autumn leaves 
turning burnished topaz gold 
idling unrushed roll over

in honeyed slumber

turning back hands
to face a time of 
blushing green 
you are seen 
turning naked face smiling
up towards blue...

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In spring lakes, my eyes

                Reflect back my purest self

Water remembers...

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Coast to Coast

The sun ascends over the Great Lakes
Settles back into the indigo depths
Flight of a copper swan shore to shore
With her sweeping wing tips skimming

Commanding
The azure locks of eternity to open
Gather her iron-ore souls from the cliffs
That lift along the turquoise bays

Arise
Our northern Holy...

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These  lakes are scratches 
gouged by glaciers
from rocks new 
when life began.

Life is hard here 
soil  thin, fire common
yet Thompson's West Wind
is but a paddle ahead.

Blood flows thickly
o’er flesh		
to knit a healing scab
leaving just a faint scar.

Stir not
these calm waters
nor linger 
o’er faint...

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The Iroquois, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, the Crow,
The Lakota, the Chippewa; all dwelt by their shores
And in their deep forests, but are there no more. 

Yet the Lakes remain; their waters abide.
Clear and quiet they lie on calm summer days,
But send ships to their bottoms...

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Clear lakes and forests:
I admired the view and then
Continued Skiing....

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A summer whisper –
A thousand lakes reflecting
A world upside down...

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...early Spring walk around 3.2mi. Lake Calhoun...so named after controversial industrialist sotten with checkered past...movement underway to return name to Native American Dakota "Bde Maka Ska" White Earth Lake.


 Purple Finches trill their soothing song
to people walking around Lake Bde Maka Ska,
a deep glacial lake...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United States border tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles 
...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern 
   North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, 
     Huron, Erie, and Ontario 
   (HOMES acronym) dearth
largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
straddle Canadian–United States 

   border tethering partial...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America 
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, 
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United States border 
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface 
fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles 
And...

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Walkers gather throughout the year
In Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere
They come to walk the fells
No matter the weather wet or clear

They travel from near and far
To follow the maps of Mr Wainwright
Who walked these same fells in the past
And left a memorial to follow aright

They are...

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Lakes Michigan and Huron are basically a single lake, 
Sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron, combined doth make
Total area of 45,300 square miles (117,000 km2) 
Have the same surface elevation of 577 feet (176 m), 
Connected by 295-foot deep 
dire Straits of Mackinac Islands splayed like a...

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Take Me There
Take me to the place where it’s broadly known 
In meadows and woods famous poets roamed
Where hosts of blithe yellow daffodils dance
In expectation of budding romance.

To view magnificent mountains and lakes
And spectacular countryside landscapes
In hopefulness that it all will inspire
My muse to explode...

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