Denali Poems - Poems about Denali

... The Green Door Those dappled wings, of forget-me-nots, folded around Akutaq, though the Denali warmth brightened her whimsy. She sat for a long, long while, contemplating the green ......

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...I have seen pictures of friends on Alaska cruise, The Denali landscape looked so stark, no hues. No frozen or floating icebergs, no polar bears catching the fish, The caribou stood alone, in the w......

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... The journey began in Kigali, but came to an end at Denali: it started off Rocky, but downed with some Sake, grilled moose makes the perfect tamale. ......

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...At nineteen I wanted to live in Colorado Till that first weekend I spent in Cheyenne At twenty-five I wanted to live in Montana Leaving Yellowstone as Glacier took my hand At thirty I wa......

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... Of all the places I set forth to see, Alaska is the one I love the best. The pristine ambiance of white, for me, presents a calmness of a vision blest. Alaska, with its rugged landscape......

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...Alaska The Rarest Gem Salmon imitates plunging dolphin movement Bald eagles chase ptarmigan above escarpment Under an ice floe a ......

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...Poems about Poets Long Division by Michael R. Burch for Laura Riding Jackson All things become one Through death’s long division And perfect precision. Nod to the Master by Mi......

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...Prose Poems II by Michael R. Burch These are prose poems (is that an oxymoron?) and experimental poems... briefling by Michael R. Burch manishatched, hopsintotheMix, cavorts, hassex (q......

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...My most popular poems on the Internet (III) A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a ......

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...Poems about Poems (I) What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless ......

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...the daffodil folk by Michael R. Burch to live among the daffodil folk... slip down the rainslickened drainpipe... suddenly pop out the GARGANTUAN SPOUT... minuscule as alice, shout yippee-yi......

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...Snapshots by Michael R. Burch Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows. And there you go, skipping your way to school. And here we are, drifting apart like untethered balloons. Here I am, creatin......

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...escape! to live among the daffodil folk . . . slip down the rainslickened drainpipe . . . suddenly pop out the GARGANTUAN SPOUT . . . minuscule as alice, shout y......

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...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 hollere......

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...The first flickers of Alaska were lectured - a mossy ground that upon footfall created a commotion, a locomotion of mosquitos - not average but bat-like. What young person wouldn’t squirm at th......

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