This Scene Before Me
...A free verse done in a quatern form (1st line moves to each stanza but is here, I have more syllables in each line in free form then is allowed inQuatern
This scene before me is one of...
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Categories:
dugout canoe, change, community, culture, international,
Form: Free verse
River Line Tourist
...RIVER LINE TOURIST
National Geographic frame:
pleasure of plum water lilies,
under potent panama sky.
A dugout canoe rows us through.
Embera with beaded skirt, our rudder.
Caiman perched on...
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Categories:
dugout canoe, river,
Form: Verse
Guests of Embera Drua
...GUESTS OF EMBERA DRUA
We are guests in this village on the Chagris River shore.
Tribe members of Embera Drua twist palms of Panama -
embrace us each, with this wreath of scented flora,
langua...
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Categories:
dugout canoe, travel,
Form: Free verse
Imbibing the Chagris River
...IMBIBING THE CHAGRIS RIVER
We descend into a dugout canoe, reflective eyes
smile, assimilating each green leaf, each push of the oar.
Fertile lily pads, whisper welcome, and fervent goodbyes.
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Categories:
dugout canoe, river,
Form: Verse
Under a Miccosukee Sky
...Big Cypress stirs, heated by Miccosukee
sky hung in spun gold. Rising in the east,
morning sways with waves of river grass
as the elder paddles through waking water
in dugout canoe. Bare-cheste...
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Categories:
dugout canoe, culture, native american, nature,
Form: Free verse