Chinook Poems

List of New Poems

PM	Poem Title	Poet	Form	Form	Categories
	Purple Loosestrife	Emile Pinet	Verse	Verse	chinook, 10th grade, beautiful, image,
	Manic Medic	Duncan R. M. Ferguson	Dramatic Verse	Dramatic Verse	chinook, farewell, freedom, inspiration, mental
	Star Power	rob carmack	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, cancer, death, environment, pollution,
	Alaska, The Last Frontier	Dennis Spilchuk	Verse	Verse	chinook, celebration, culture, education, history,
	Too Much	Krystal Cochrane	Rhyme	Rhyme	chinook, truth,
	Unquotable quotes: friends - XV, Part One	T Wignesan	Epigram	Epigram	chinook, father daughter, friendship, fun,
	Soul Stance River - 34	Justin Bordner	Epic	Epic	chinook, adventure, introspection,
	Soul Stance River - 33	Justin Bordner	Epic	Epic	chinook, adventure, business,
	Soul Stance River - 30	Justin Bordner	Epic	Epic	chinook, adventure,
	Chinook	D.W. Rodgers	Haibun	Haibun	chinook, memory, weather,
	Kananaskis is	D.W. Rodgers	Haiku	Haiku	chinook, memory,
	COLLEVILLE SUR MER	Sidney Beck	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, america, grave, soldier,
	Butterfly Beach	Anthony Slausin	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, beach, butterfly,
	Spirit In The Flute	Michael Smith	Ode	Ode	chinook, native american, autumn,
	Shana and Shano Part II	Brianna Picard	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, adventure, art, childhood, family,
	TWO FOR FEBRUARY	daver austin	Haiku	Haiku	chinook, nature,
	TWO RIVERS	larry colvin	I do not know?	I do not know?	chinook, religion
	THAW AT CROWSNEST PASS	Sidney Beck	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, nature, mountains,
	The Old Red Barn	Carrie Richards	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, song,
	Kansas	Carrie Richards	Narrative	Narrative	chinook, family, nostalgia,
	Killed in Action	Bilal HB	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, war
	Chinook Wind	Cheryl McCall	I do not know?	I do not know?	chinook, love, mystery, nature
	A SEASON FOR CHANGE	dale kruper	Free verse	Free verse	chinook, nature, seasons, autumn,
	Wind, a Rondelet	Taylor Graham	Lyric	Lyric	chinook, life, natural disasters, places,
	ORIENT EXPRESS	Brian Strand	Idyll (Idyl)	Idyll (Idyl)	chinook, seasons,
	Winds of Love	Tamara Hillman	Rhyme	Rhyme	chinook, love, passion, seasons,

Chinook Poem Example

Kananaskis is

Kananaskis is 
four-fifths a line of  haiku
Kananaskis is

With spring’s sudden warmth
serial avalanches thunder
one triggers the next 

Winter’s snow melting 
laughing, leaping, running to 
valley far below

Green slopes banded red
dying lodgepole pine,  memories	
of last year’s Chinook

Golden larch quivers	
as the first storm of winter
passes close tonight

As a boy, I came
to know this quiet valley 
father's special place 

Leaving highway to
where mountains reach to heaven
we drove the stone road

Fishing beaver ponds
dad came on bees, lost his specs 
on return  just bees

One night as we camp
a timberwolf comes to call
returns to dark night

On the upper lake
clouds mask the solar eclipse
but fish go crazy

One spring’s discovery
drawdown pools, teeming with trout 
who won’t touch anything

A five pound rainbow
beached chasing Peter’s lure
red stripe - jealousy

Late autumn, Lake B
big browns cruise downwind beaches
only we know where

A ski resort appears
wonderland needs paved roads
we protest in vain

Twenty years later
returning with my children
to an unknown place

If you slow to look
irate traffic leans on horns	
rushing to their lodge

My kids and I fish
a borrow pit now a“lake”
tourists' put and take

To a grizzly bear
roads are barriers wider	
than flooding rivers

Kananaskis is 
four-fifths a line of  haiku
Kananaskis is


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Poem Copyright © D.W. Rodgers