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Pilgrimage

...One day I'll drive there.
On the way
I'll tell my wife about the Modoc woman,
who lived outside the city,
above a sea lion rookery.

She taught me a Klamath-Modoc prayer:

“I want you animals...

Categories: klamath, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Legends of Crater Lake

...Crater Lake, Oregon
a lake sacred to the indigenous Klamath tribe
she appeared after collapse of Mt. Mazama
doorway portal to the underworld

Crater Lake
where spirit Llao fell in love with a N...

Categories: klamath, travel,
Form: Free verse

Pilgrimage

...One day I'll drive there.
On the way
I'll tell my wife about the Modoc woman,
who lived outside the city
above a sea lion rookery.

She taught me a Klamath-Modoc prayer:

“I want you animals ...

Categories: klamath, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Pilgrimage

...When I get to the Redwoods,
I’ll look for her clapboard home
above a sea-lion rookery.
I will seek out
her twelve-year-old Ford truck,
her briny patch of hand-reared garden,
her small surf-ridi...

Categories: klamath, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Wagontire Oregon For Poem a Thon

...April 6 Wagontire, Oregon 
1973

In 1973, I went on a road trip 
With my father

We left Berkeley to go to Yakima
Where my father had a summer cabin

He was a college professor
And had July...

Categories: klamath, travel,
Form: Free verse

How Interesting Is a Two Curved Toucan

...senators seeing stapled starkers
Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very eerily similar to a gaggle of ge...

Categories: klamath, april, arabic, art, august,
Form: I do not know?

The Klamath

...

unfettered
on its way to the sea
bathing the land with all its riches

from its source to the ocean where it spends itself
flowing wild and free from the beginning of time

the fis...

Categories: klamath, river,
Form: Verse

Surreal Nature

...Sitting by the Klamath River in Northern California, watching as it endlessly
makes its way around the bend, searching for the sea. A "wild river' it is, one of the
few left untouched by dams and the...

Categories: klamath, nature,
Form: Haibun

Along the Klamath

...Spray painted on the bridge guardrail
The words "Two Feathers is pok li la..."
Past and the present meet by the river
The old ways remembered by the young.

Two Feathers in an "upstream man"
Tribes o...

Categories: klamath, history, life, people,
Form: Free verse

.............(Rain Haiku)

...Drops on the river

Silver ripples spread-

Rust colors the bank



Remembering getting caught in a fall
shower while fishing on the Klamath River....

Categories: klamath, nature, places
Form: Haiku

Rain On the River

...Mist rises from the mountains and meets
rain clouds spilling down the canyon.

Fish ducks fly up river, their
breasts just skimming the water.

The heron stands in the shallows, his
neck arche...

Categories: klamath, life, nature, peace
Form: Free verse

Wild River

...Drifting by variegated green banks, 
Moving water in all shades of blue.
A trout flashing his silver sides,
The setting sun in a golden hue.

The brown of restless rocky bottom,
Shadowed eddies...

Categories: klamath, nature
Form: Couplet