Summer Canoe Poems

Light
reflects
Autumn's ink
on smooth waters,
an image stirred by a passing canoe

an image stirred by a passing canoe
on smooth waters,
Autumn's ink
reflects
Light

Fall
dabbles
red pigment
strewn all about,
as Autumn arrives and...

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willows in symmetry 
ripples in crowfoot 
swan goes with the flow...

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Let me tell you a story
One day, near summer’s end
Martha and her husband
Went canoeing with a friend

Suddenly a log’s there!
And what can Martha do?
Then she’s...

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The umber canoe
floats. The long curly leaves
of a weeping willow
casts eel-shaped shadows.

The mocha river 
swirls when the bass are caught, 
they twist the nylon lines.
The...

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         Song of the Canoe



The empty canoe floating alone.
Soft, smiling, summer leaves.....her only companions.
A rare, friendly sparrow...

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gliding through its ripples breaking the stillness
in harmony paddling with my ancestors 
serene other than a loon's call as witness
gaging the span of mountains by...

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Beneath the hanging branches 
of the weeping willow trees.

Along the winding river
so very hard to see.

On a lazy summer day
floats a tiny white canoe.

The water...

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