Long Ingalls Poems

(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil)

Rites of Passage

Forty-six years ago,
my first winter in the Pacific NW
my first winter break at college,
I headed out to climb Mt Stuart in the North Cascades 
in the company of...

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He was coming.
He was coming fast.
He was coming to pay us a visit.
A brooding, lethal monster 30 miles out.
He was coming straight at us
and nothing or no one could stop him

Our house was on the...

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It is the last week of school.
Children all over America are going
On field trips, having assemblies, 
Parties, and water fights with their teachers.

Teachers who have not smiled all year long
Are pulling out all the stops....

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The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat
S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat
The people that owned her needed a name
President of the company was given that fame.

One of the largest boats to...

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~Lttle House on The Prairie~
(Rhyme)


I just love that T.V. show  Little House On The Prairie
To me is nicer and more fun to watch  than Tom and Jerry 
I still enjoy watching this ...

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Find Joy in the ordinary ~ Max Lucado

Far away, during moments of unrehearsed prayers, when I heard my mind move through the pages of some idea I had just happened upon – be it in...

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Some people eat them plain, some with hot sauce
They buy no matter what the cost
They have swept the nation, have become a craze
If not on the shelves, customers call it a disgrace
It is said that...

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"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime."   - Laura Ingalls Wilder

The Christmas...

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I hate Harriet Oleson because she was a bitch.
Somebody should've had that awful woman lynched.
She makes me so mad that the veins in my forehead start to throb.
That woman was greedy, mean and she was...

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To Laura Ingalls Wilder

Your stories were simple
Heart-warming and merry
You told us of events that occurred on the prairie

Your Pa was the strong one
Your sisters were kind
Although one was fated
To become fully blind

Your Ma was an...

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I hate that Nellie Olson
—Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie

I’ll fix her. You’ll see.
—Nellie Olson, Little House on the Prairie
(regarding Laura)

Season 6, Episode 2: The two get muddy fighting over a man. Nellie gets...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
Her writing was milder.
She lived in the backwoods
Where they made canned goods.

Laura wrote her children’s series
Little houses were full of theories
Her name became famed
She was just what she claimed
I’m sure she knew many...

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