Long Huron Poems

The Great Lakes acronym spells homes

I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge 
of aforementioned material slim.

Housing multivarious biomes
register ecological syndromes
whereby constituents of NOAA 
Great Lakes Environmental 
Research Laboratory writ tomes.

Pellucid...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United States border tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface...

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Until His Red-Heart Weeps

In his forest, the Indian avoided the trappings of the white men;
There his footfalls upon soft and clean, untouched virgin ground;
A place where his tired soul can finally reach ever deeper within;
Nature...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern 
   North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, 
     Huron, Erie, and Ontario 
   (HOMES acronym) dearth
largest group of freshwater lakes on...

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Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America 
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, 
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United States border 
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface...

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Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe

Euchee, or...

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Apache, the Ndee, "the people" of Arizona and other States
Blackfoot, the Siksika, whose painted red faces we can relate

Cheyenne, the Tsitsistas, meaning relatives of the Cree
Dakota Sioux, the Dakota, meaning little snakes in Ojibwe

Euchee, or...

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My wife and I traveled here
To walk on water
With ice pics and an old shiver

The Mackinaw Straits
Where Huron and Michigan open their mouths
Kiss and hiss
Under the legs of the great suspension bridge

From which a high-rise...

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Coast to Coast

The sun ascends over the Great Lakes
Settles back into the indigo depths
Flight of a copper swan shore to shore
With her sweeping wing tips skimming

Commanding
The azure locks of eternity to open
Gather her iron-ore souls...

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Lakes Michigan and Huron are basically a single lake, 
Sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron, combined doth make
Total area of 45,300 square miles (117,000 km2) 
Have the same surface elevation of 577 feet (176 m), 
Connected by...

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The Iroquois, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, the Crow,
The Lakota, the Chippewa; all dwelt by their shores
And in their deep forests, but are there no more. 

Yet the Lakes remain; their waters abide.
Clear and quiet they...

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In Port Huron a banker’s family lived in the prettiest house in town
Painted lady, proud of her colors, she peered at other houses around.
None had her pizzazz, her beauty, her sleek lines or her style.
Many...

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Is there any place as lonely
As a Lake Huron resort town
In the off-season of mid-November?
Sign outside the church reads	THANK YOU!

Its steeple a record player needle
Set to the warped sky
Barry Manilow ballads
Hobbling from an A.M. station...

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<                   encircling mountain's crest... the mighty eagle .. soars

        ...

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Indian summer fall day
Glimmering sunshine filtering through the swaying leaves
Casting shadows upon the sidewalk

Looking out a window
A homeless man is observed
As he begins to use the courtyard as his stage

Loneliness
Brings about the need to have...

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Before Morning Mass

We enter with our granddaughter
carrying two Barbie dolls
“to their first mass,” she says.
While they work on her hairdo in back
I sit in soft light of this quiet space.
In a few minutes our son...

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As I stand on the shore of lake Huron in Ontario, Canada 
Marveling at all the beauty with autumn at her peek
I see what I assume a flying leaf  upon a cool breeze
Until it...

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A thin layer of rosy clouds
Greets the morning sun as it breeches
The hills over Rice Lake
And Villa da Rosa. My eyes open
As the light penetrates my indigo soul
And my thoughts, invariably,
Turn to you…and sunrises.
I’ve seen...

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DUCK  DAY


In Primorskaya today the river ice was breaking.
Two mallard ducks were celebrating

In a Lake-Huron-shaped patch  about one square metre,
Taking  an enthusiastic bath, making selves look neater

Dipping  their heads in many...

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Deshbhushan – my father’s name given on
Entrance of a temple where grandma in yawn
Sitting with twins – my father and uncle yon 
Hilltop – crying were both – grandpa gone.
Buying some milk when came on...

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A sailboat gently floats across a peaceful lake 
and suddenly the world befriends me once again
Beyond all time the memory of our fishing trip
still lingers on my mind;

It lays softly upon the Huron lake, 
like...

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Lake Huron

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Remnants of autumn’s golden beauty cling to dull gray branches.
Battered by the howling Huron wind, one last dance whirls them down to a final resting place.
Whitecaps shatter the boulder-laden shore, leaving frothy trails upon the...

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Steven, My Love, my best friend in life,

Parents that support me in whatever I do;

My two puppies Zeus & Eos (both mutts)

My heritage of Potawatomi, Huron and Sioux;

A family willing to lend me support,

A wonderful...

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