Long Banff Poems

I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul and in that profoundly disturbing darkness, I went searching to...

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We planned this trip with forethought…it’s the way we both prefer
but no matter how well we planned it…unexpected things occur:

Today instead of using our GPS to take us to Banff
I used a map …and apparently...

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Today we bid goodbye to beautiful Glacier
We’re traveling to a tiny house in Monarch, Canada…on our way to Banff
Which is distressing for a person who love rhymes
not because it won’t be beautiful…but because nothing rhymes...

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For days I’ve been writing poems about our travels…let me now explain…
We’re on the Great Northern Road trip
driving US Highway 2 from Washington all the way to Maine.

We’ll be veering off heading to Glacier and...

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The Great Northern Road Trip is meant to follow Highway 2 from Washington to Maine.
That’s how it was drawn up…that is how it is known
but along the way (Seattle, Olympic, Glacier, Banff) we’ve tried to...

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RAF navigator Ron Day and I took of from Banff, Scotland,
I was in the RAAF, an Australian, and we flew in formation:
40 Mosquitos to attack German ships in Norway land,
In a harbour, Porsgrunn, but then...

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Since leaving Banff we’ve driven 1200 miles 
(as a nod to Deborah’s dad we drive only during the day!)
and we’ve stopped for the night in 6 different spots along the way.

So after driving 260 miles...

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The indigenous people have occupied these lands
for over 10,000 years in all…
Their name for this beautiful place was Mini hrpa…
which means Mountain Where The Water Falls

So I imagine they were a little perplexed…
perhaps a little...

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RELATED BY CHOICE

For my adopted grandmother Nancy Enloe

I met you at a friend’s house,
standing stately on your cane,
tall and rosy-cheeked like me.
In your smile, I basked and thought,
“Long-lost cousin, could you be?”

Like my great aunt...

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Of the places of wonder,  to travel and wander
I would return once again to the chasms of time
Banff National Park is the jewel in the crown
On the rim of the world where pure silence...

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Once I purchased a book about 
Total Recall
It might be of 
Re-cap-i–tulation
Rum-i-nation
Or glorious immigrant stories….

But I failed to reach even 
a library spot…
Too high a ladder.
Your ablution will falsify
Your ebb and flood tides
In Between, O...

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TOP   TEN  MOST  BEAUTIFUL   SIGHTS   I  HAVE  SEEN


Photo of my wife  holding a rose 
Some years ago  in a hotel in Tallinn, Estonia....

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If I could choose a moment,
To be my eternity,
It would be that one,
Sitting above the Bow River,
On that high Banff perch,
Above the Rocky Mountains.

And your head on my shoulder,
A gentle weight, a whisper of trust,
Underneath...

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OUR    FAMILY   VALLEY

Mountains strong withstand the turmoil,
Protect our valley from the storm.
The river makes a fertile soil
And seedling trees can start to form.
The slopes are crowded with the trees
And their...

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I met a spicy young lassie
on the road from Banff to Buckie
Her eyes were full of sparkle.
I thought I might get lucky.
Polite chit chat over cola.
With a nip of apricot brandy.
Her demeanor and wit quite...

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