Chinook Poems | Examples

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Premium Member Wear A Salmon On Your Head

Wear a salmon on your head,
          the wild Orca said,
make it a big chinook
          or perhaps a steelhead.

It's very avant-garde;
          it makes a fashion dent,
and kittens think the smell
          is heaven sent.

A salmon hat is a cultural fad displayed by orcas, where they wear dead salmon upon their heads. It was first observed in 1987 with southern resident orcas and was a relatively short-lived phenomenon. In 2024, the behaviour was observed again with orcas in Puget Sound. The motivations for salmon hats are unclear, but other orcas will mimic the behaviour once it begins. One hypothesis is that orcas wear salmon hats to display high food availability, or that the same individuals that originally started the trend revitalized it. It may also indicate playfulness. ~Wikipedia

Premium Member The Fierce Storm

thunder rumbles
               constantly
                    off in a distance
                          even more thunder

thunder 
     gets closer
          intensified  
                  howling tempest 
                  

lightning flashes
      thunderclaps
              clap again
                   house shakes upon its foundation

gust's speed picks up
          constant lightning flashes
               bringing nitrogen to earth
                      i feel it turning plants green

wind chimes dance
        jingle
             play their tunes 
                   independently

in the mist of the bluster
        God's presence is real
                  i know He's here

in this chinook
    i know my Protector lives
            He cares
                 He's real

my humanness still is afraid
        each shake
                each flash
                       each intense billow scares

His presence keeps me
      from falling apart
            running scared
                  or panicking

Premium Member Desire

Desire balanced fulfilled 
climax flight tolerance you 
leave out on your Chinook 
my breath within the wings 
of the craft you are my mind 
my sight my mind focused 
hanger four we load the 
cargo saying goodbye why 
I cannot fathom I only whisper 
sit down buckle your belt 
and kiss me we shall meet 
on the other side of the world 
dance with me one more time 
sing to me let's live like we 
are dying cuddle me as 
we embrace Tim mcgraw 
lyrics I shall always remember 
you when this air craft falls
on the wings of love my dove


Tough Love

Male Parasite Stabs Female in Neck With Peenis.
Males,which live up to six hours,fly around looking
for these embedded females,with which they'll mate
and then die,After the larvae emerge from the female,
she dies too.This is called suicidal sax or lethal sax.
Pacific salmon die after spawning the chinook species.
After her first batch of eggs hatch,mothers first 
regurgitate food for newly emerged spiderlings and
then let the spiderlings eat her.Sperm competition drives
suicidal reproduction in antechinus and other marsupials.
These marsupials show extreme sexual behaviour and physiology.
Note.Are you ready to die Miss Luna Silver??? tha tha injection??

Premium Member The New Harvest Moon

When the new harvest Moon,
shines in the night sky.
The orange pumpkin fruits,
are ready for pie.
The standing feed corn,
hasn't quite dried.
The warm days recede,
summers passed by.
When the new harvest moon,
shines in the night sky.

When the mid harvest moon,
shines in the night sky.
The leaf's brilliant hues,
will splendor our eyes.
The potatoes are picked,
Sorted by size.
And The Chinook are running,
they might spool your line.
When the mid harvest moon,
shines in the night sky.

When the late harvest moon,
shines in the night sky.
The migrating birds,
are flocking for flight.
The fully ripe apples,
make a baker's delight.
The wood's stacked high
dried for the fire.
The Seasons have changed,
and winter is Nigh.
When the late harvest moon,
Wanes in the night sky.

Premium Member Cruise To Alaska

The trip was a riot of color,
It brings a myriad of queries,
Fantastic tales of utter darkness,
Views' visible roots were explored. 

Mainsail surges,
pungent froth carried wave tips while,
blast swings moaning openly.

superb mountains,
Convey streams into streaming rivers,
Down slants shrouded in woods.

And the majesty of the stars,
Is confronted every morning,
Under soft white clouds,
is with each foot I set down.

I relish the quiet of the sound,
how each slant embraces,
the still raw bay.

Home to unglaciated cervids,
Gnawing animals and polar bears,
Willow grouse, deer,
Also, the renowned Chinook Salmon.

More genuine than the Arctic flow,
Afar-off state refuted,
In both word and deed,
Anyhow of these ever tender wishes.

Atop mottled strands,
I let my emotions air dry,
Orange tulips were selected,
I regained faith; I can fly.

5Th Place Contest Winner

Written: June 18, 2022

2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mark Toney


Little Lady Bug

Little lady bug by my window how pretty you look 
with your fragile wings and sweet tiny polka dots  
Fate brought you to me like a great chinook
you landed on my heart, like a Cupid shot ! 

Ladybug of luck, bring me happiness if you may 
If I place you on my finger, may I make a wish 
will you grant me a gift before the end of day 
will you grant me true love, on a silver dish   

Lady fly of beauty where did you come from today 
did you stop at every port or only by my house 
lady beetle, messenger and harbinger of play 
dance upon my palm a little longer while I douse 

I've seen you around before but never at my door,  
please send me a man that I surely can, adore ?  

January 18, 2022 
Sponsor	Angela Tune
Contest Name	Insects

Chinook Moon

Ilchee, the "Moon Girl".
She paddled her own canoe ~
Bronze gaze, heart of steel.



Featured: Poetry Soup homepage.  Week of 12/10/23

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Angels In My Head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R8nJSe8Jb0

Dreams are made of fairy dust and gold my mom once said
as she tucked me in real tight and kissed my sleepy  head
you will see stars of bright and little angels baking bread
there upon a cloud, a Pegasus with wings of finest thread

Dreams are made for human bodies full of goodness, light
you can get there if you try  and wish with all your might
you'll see blueberry moons with  eyes that wink so bright  
magic swords with pixie dust, that never fear the night

Fairies will rock you in their cradles by their garden nook
while you sleep five winks and create with just one look
up here you can be a butterfly lost in the winds of chinook
reveal most anything, be transparent as an open book

Dreams are made of fairy dust and gold my mom once said
as she tucked me in I fell asleep, with angels in my head.

Premium Member Children of the Lantern

We fished close to where he supposedly drowned.
Tossing lures into the black heart of the bay.
Trying to fool coho and Chinook, but only attracting a soul.

The sun retreated as old fishermen must do.
Orange lanterns glowing, rising to the chalk heart of dusk.

Premium Member Star Power

A Little Boy’s gun with a barometric trigger,
showed a Fat Man how to
blot out an Empire’s rising sun.
Proliferation’s need pushed
Sellafield and Kyshtym to trip chasing Manhattan.
Twenty two years later and just
three miles south of Middleton,
failed safe assurances lied again and signed
Pripyat’s some thousands years lease that left
eighteen billion rubles around one elephant’s foot.
Fukushima’s seven year menses – Pacific stained –
west coast tide pool colors an invasive green
as Chinook escapements fill five year graves.
Intractable cesium hangovers bleed MOX cocktails
Nostrils blowing bubbles over damned lips
fused to the tit of a beast we can’t tame.


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Contest: Remembering What You Want to Forget
Sponsor: Kim Rodrigues
Date: 09.04.18

Too Much

I like talking to you too much
the way you think and dream and dare
I like talking to you too much
drawn like a flame pulls in air

I like talking to you too much
your depth and passion and charm
I like talking to you too much
unexpected wind the Chinook disarms 

I like talking to you too much
spinning in your smile, catching in your laugh
I like talking to you too much
momentum of a wave caught in a photograph  

I like talking to you too much
fingertips scrape for more
but I'm talking to you too much
even if it's only a whisper under the door

Colleville Sur Mer

COLLEVILLE  SUR  MER

In uneasy rest
He faces west.
They all face west to America  -
So far away from this beach,
So very far out of reach.

He no longer feels the chinook
Nor the glance of mother’s knowing eye
Over the range on his Utah farm.
He is the son and brother
Of Omaha, Nebraska, and the Sandhills
Beckon him home.

Silence now 
The tolling of the trolley
Car bell over the Bay.
Hear only the swish of beach sand.

He dreams endlessly
In the cold Channel breeze,
From the ocean
Between him and home.

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NOTES

Colleville sur Mer  is where the American cemetery is located in France. All names on the   gravestones face west.
Omaha and Utah are the names of invasion beaches on the Channel coast 
of  France where thousands of US  soldiers died in 1944.

Premium Member Butterfly Beach

So, this is where butterflies go to die.
Atop this burning ochre beach.
Amidst the palomino stones, party streamers, and chinook bones.
They folded up their powdery dreams.
Awaiting the pallbearer's tide. 
Toting emerald caskets, silver-lined.
So, this is where butterflies go to die.

Premium Member Two For February

TWO FOR FEBRUARY

i’m crossing fingers
mild february thus far
blue skies    atlas smiles

blue bird on the wing
color against winter’s nap
harbinger of spring

Dave Austin

*inspired by “Chinook” – forgot the author

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