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Best Worth Its Salt Poems


Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 8
Every journey worth its salt has rocky places
Bank to bank filled with frothing white water, 
The economics of avoidance, steering a lean course, 
Avoiding higher peaks that thrill - vouchsafed to others.
Rest days taken during times of lower water
Even portaging some sections altogether, 
Below one...

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Categories: worth its salt, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Salt and Gold
My tears of elation are not tears at all.
Each one; worth its salt, worth all weight in gold.
Each one; a pearl feather, which glows as it falls,
And soaks in to settle the hope that I hold....

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Categories: worth its salt, happiness, hope, love, romance,
Form: Quatrain
A Museum Gift Shop
A museum worth its salt
Has a gift shop that is cool.
If it doesn’t, I’d find fault
And be let down, as a rule.

For when I’ve seen all the art
Or the science that’s displayed,
I will often do my part
‘Til a purchase has been made.

Be it jewelry or...

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Categories: worth its salt, business,
Form: Rhyme

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