Life Canoe Poems

Come, let's build a canoe,
We'll float away
just me and you 
We'll float down stream
Upon the water,
Flickers of light
In our hair
My daughter
My little daughter
A poet too
An...

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PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE
 
Stand tall, raise high, blame not thy lot,
Tread path swift, find faults naught;
Decisions tough, impediments bountiful, solution yet to be taught,
On...

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Life is a Canoe Ride
For Those Born in America
Written: by Tom Wright
5/29/2019

We’re situated equal, in life’s canoe, to start the game,
Some will choose to drift,...

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Their canoe zigzagged
as a snake. They enjoyed, 
splashing water. They were
bold before the maelstrom.

‘Those days are gone, dear.’
He whispers, and she nods.

Their canoe floats on...

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bursting rapids
little red canoe
paddling for life



posted on July 19, 2018...

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"CIRCLING INSANITY IN A PAPER CANOE"

I circle insanity
as I go around and around.
to my left, just outside
each turn,
thirty-two years of myself.
32 faces,
purity to broken,
I unmask...

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I left my voice, down by the water.
It will be safe.
At least there, any tarnishment of tone,
will slip invisibly into the simple rythmn of the...

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