Winter Immigration Poems

				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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I have entrusted my verses to migrating birds,
Their wings carry my words across vast miles.
Last winter, they faltered on their journey to you,
My cherished avian...

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I was a lost boy I wasn't talkin'
And I was so small I wasn't eatin'
So I went on my own, my demons I'm beatin'
Three years...

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Our spring, summer, fall, and winter are well defined,
setting the rhythm for seasonal sway. 
          ...

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To receive care
that best meets your needs,
and also,
by the way,
everyone else's too,
we look first
to where and when we have given such care
since our original longest...

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I was once a seed 
A seed wrongly rooted
A seed away from home 
A seed on a craggy Mountain 

An alpine plant once told me,
“You...

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A discombobulated couple that landed in the new world with hopes that left the bitter taste of rejection in their mouths
No family , no friends,...

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anniversary, bird, change, courage, immigration, mystery, sky,
 'Geese' Hiaku: 'Ode to the Canadian Goose'!

Canada’s Geese © HAIKU

All Northern Geese ‘crop’	
Seasonal tour ‘reruns’ twice!
Returning again!


Flag-poled Staff...

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Early spring, fire and ice meld,
sculpting winter into art.
And as shorter days lengthen
snowmen gain a crystal heart.

Nature dapples the landscape
with patches of green and white.
And...

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I have a best friend.
He doesn't speak English, but
He lets me ask him anything-
He's got big brown eyes that watch
As the world goes by like...

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