Brown Trout - Salmo Truta
..."Piscator non solum piscatur"
("There is more to fishing than fish.)"
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Brown trout anglers catch few fishes
and almost always let them go
barbless hooks...
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Categories:
blackflies, fish, fishing, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Rolling Greens
...The rolling Greens seem so serene,
forests pristine in sunlight’s sheen,
tall, rounded peak, a rocky creek,
a red-tail’s beak, rodents he seeks,
an aged elm, rare in this realm,
stands at th...
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Categories:
blackflies, america, appreciation, community, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Blackflies
...blackflies voracious
mosquitoes abound
screen door between us
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Categories:
blackflies, summer,
Form: Haiku
Lake Like Glass
...Lake like glass,
no wind this eve
which makes
blackflies hell
but the canoe glides
across the water
like the trout
I pursue
but seldom
catch.
Up two islands
turning back at
the a...
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Categories:
blackflies, fishing, nature,
Form: Free verse
Northern Ontario
...The scent of pines will carry you
across our Northern Front.
Where trees that breathe through oily bark
will lead you in the hunt.
A place where forests comb the skies
controlling even weather...
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Categories:
blackflies, beauty, nature,
Form: Quatrain
---Clouds of Blackflies
...clouds of blackflies
smear the car's windshield
red dawn...
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Categories:
blackflies, nature
Form: Haiku