Caribou Poems

There is a new ice cream
It is A in Canada
It is called The Caribou
An ice cream bar on a stick
Sold in the groceries stores

A hard chocolate shell
With a rice crispy coat
Bite into it -vanilla ice cream
The caramel flowing out
Your taste...Read More

The phone app said "unhealthy"
To describe Denali's air.
The sky was gray and smoky
All the hours we were there.

So we were disappointed;
Thought the day would be a bust
'Til somebody hollered "Moose!"
Our brakes kicked up a heap of dust.

A mother moose and...Read More

In Alaska, running loose
Are grizzlies, caribou and moose.
Eagles soar and whales cavort
And salmon fishing is a sport.

Glaciers calve and mountains rise,
Scenery to mesmerize.
Sadly, now, for tourist folk
The air is filled with thick gray smoke.

I am starting on a tour;
Don't know...Read More

           Baraboo!

Her clowns now gone away

 Her deer -- now cari-blue   
 
...Read More

The saga set
In blinding light
Upon a barren stage
Players hunter and prey

Eyes the marrow of this bone
Peering thought the slit aperture 
         The nuance of the scene
      ...Read More

longing
for a mate
caribou calling



posted on September 24, 2018...Read More

Sealed truth got killed
on a silver moon, 
Arctic polar bear night

A belly full of blubber lies
got spilled 
on the scarlet frozen ice

And no grief amount 
of Inuit insomnia igloo intuition
seemed to caribou care

Because every tundra fable,
any angel snow-face Eskimo child...Read More

The Alaskan Pipeline

1968 confirmed the year 
Of discovery by Humble Oil
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range,
A west to east 
Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area 40 miles wide by 15 miles deep,
(Although, flat as...Read More

Alaska, The Last Frontier

Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains, 
Deliver streams into flowing rivers: 
Down slopes covered in forests 
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock
That dominates the landscape.
The name Alaska originates 
From the Aleut word 'Aleyska,'
Meaning the...Read More

What do you want, what do you need?
  I've got it right here, just read.
   Need a house, your own home,
     just call me on the phone.
   Need appliances to add...Read More

roses  are red violets are blue 
my love for you is so true 
anything for you I would do 
but pet a tiger at the zoo
I'd tie your lace on your shoe
in  the   mornings make breakfast just  for you 
where...Read More

I zip swiftly along on my snow machine,
admist a white blanket with spots of green,
my trapline runs along this stretch,
Alaskan cold makes smoke of breath.

The snowpack has been good this year,
goes a little way to allaying my fears,
but who knows...Read More

After a top secret clandestine conclave,
one or more eight Reindeer forsake
played cow word spoilt,
et cetera doe fill full heartbreak,

which Santa Claus immediately claimed
to be “FAKE” and accused (Jake)
i.e. Jacob Marley concocted game over, 
every doe done (possibly really espy
from Charles...Read More

A pitchfork and a wheelbarrow
down by the caribou crossing
where an aphrodite's twilight
embraces the north country...

the churning of nature's marrow
has me turning and tossing
under a cold silver starlight
that blankets this land of mystery...

paint me a water-colored fresco
where a flaxen sun exposes
a...Read More

2/2/17


Stay tuned
For the soon to be boom
Between the sun and moon
And any flowers that do or don't bloom
During morning, night and afternoon

Lifeforms becoming unglued
Nobody is immune
Never assume
Acting like a buffoon
And being rude or lewd
Just because you think there may be...Read More

My silky ivory coat keeps me warm in the artic climate,
my keen senses search for prey in the Alaskan wilderness-
When I encounter the mighty mount Denali, I climb it,
yes, I am an Artic Wolf and am known for being carnivorous.

I...Read More

You want it all.

The lakes and tar sands

Fresh water and fish

Arctic diamonds

Pipelines that confine

The caribou

And make the hunt ridiculous.

Forests for the churning

Of lusty, gossip press

And row houses

Like card houses

In six figure excess.

You set the price

You peg the share return

You fudge...Read More

Alaskan wilderness, a beautiful sight, holds grave danger when you go it alone.
It was freezing cold one night when Frank’s unwanted adventure began. 
He had left early that Sunday morn, before an unexpected blizzard moved in.
In daylight he had traveled...Read More

Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a mobile no longer; so I must walk.

It's cold, and now I think of it, that...Read More

The sanctimonious issue of a fishing party at a marina is a square not a circle. But rhinos doing a ballet performance is akin to a synchronised swimming competition. Mind not a pillar of pillow case. And moving quickly with...Read More

D  Doctor Michelle Oakley, Yukon Vet
O  On Nat Geo, best animal show yet,
C  can bring the thrills of taking care of tamed
T  to wild species, with her strength and famed
O  operations handling moose and yaks,
R...Read More

Moon-bounced light, flint-hard
meets my eyes
cold air, sharp as a shard
of glass
slices my nose and sears
my ears
Yet this is warmth, the arena of life’s race
the cosmic granule on which we breathing
creatures cling
not the absolute, the devastating
cold deep space
 
Not a soul...Read More

Oh that I could speak with the Northern Lights,
And commune with the Spirits therein.
Or dance to the tunes of the Arctic wastes,
Return to a life - sanguine.

Oh that I might commune with Wolf and Bear,
And hear of the tales they...Read More

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limitless valley
forced separated instinct
lost my caribou

~Written By: Laura Loo~
~Date Written: February 14, 2016~...Read More