Long Kayaks Poems

One day a placid platypus was playing in a kitchen. He had discovered that there was often much to sort and much to sort was often much fun. Other platypuses did not realise how much...

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Alaska The Rarest Gem


                     Salmon imitates plunging dolphin movement
      ...

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I would like to talk about the coronavirus which has caused so many of us to agonize
I will stay away from politics except to say…it has made some people act unwise.

Instead I would like to...

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I gaze beyond 
the sky of sapphires,
waiting for a
spark of sailing light,
listening to 
the balmy breeze~
they kiss the 
rays of silver,
with tales of 
my eclipsed past. 

Maybe tonight dandelion 
wind will dance in sync~
to sunset...

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When you look around at life and see tragedy and despair
and no matter how you try…you cannot make things fair

Sometimes the best that you can hope for when the day is done
is to balance all...

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Thoreau found solace in his pond…trees made Joyce Kilmer quiver
but yesterday I found our comfort…floating on the river.

We paddled and floated in our kayaks…you know…boats…the quiet kind
gladly leaving our computers and technology behind.

If we wanted...

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The suburban pressure cooker expelled its multiethnic horde north. Laden with implements of leisure, bicycles, kayaks, canoes and camping gear; world weary travelers of urban and suburban bent surged north ever, north. Bucking, they wrenched...

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As I look at nature, it’s sure delight,
because what I see is a lovely sight.
Can’t you hear the birds take flight?
daffodils sway to the left and to the right,
Eagles soar, with keen and good eyesight....

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The seasons revolve in sublime spell,
joyous essence I feel within me dwell.

Summer’s departing footsteps I hear,
as blazing sun mellows down at noon.
In autumn meadow dew pearls appear,
the leaves rustle, they’ll be gold soon.

The seasons revolve...

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Pink and sallow lemonade, marmalade and tangerine…
Explodes the Alaskan expanse - a slice of apple pie.
Apt U.S.A. hurray!  My fanfare-fire flowers are serene.
Listen closely to the swoosh, the Sitka sunset in the sky.

Soothing to...

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The sherbet orange light of a fall morning in Connecticut crackles with the scent pine. The lake’s parking lot overflows by nine thirty. The S.U.V.s park in a haphazard manor. The boat crew’s flight from...

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Every breath might be your last
Look not forward, look not past
Seize the moment hold it fast.

Leave your calendar
for a week without time
on a land marked by eras.

Paddling into the West Wind 
the Old Woman breaths...

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kayaks take for granted blooms

on river ellen

kyokusetsu

 

ribbed wood canoe holds firm

for lovers' tangled hair to  be returned

 

with our roadside laces


 

loggers' boat ribs petrified 

by the river's deep mud and exposed

 

to...

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Pastoral country
Where folks wave to passers by--
Farmers plowing

Exit 386
Wal-Mart, fast foods, and hotels-- 
Tourists stop

Modern businesses
Of every type one might need--
The short road to town

Refurbished storefronts
With arts antiques and barbers--
Downtown businesses

Houses big and small
Fill the...

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Awaken to the scent of green
on foliage too broken to be rare
after sleep of listless druggery
from nature's sweet intent
Smoking pit three shades from us
with scents that only heaven knows
which pump the blood to stir the...

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Wallpaper Vapors? 

I wanted to repaper my room
But mom and dad said it’s too soon
You just did it yesterday, you crazy kook
But THAT paper had kayaks and today I want nuns
My parents just looked at...

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There are many ways
to travel down the river.
Swimming, flowing,
diving, using: kayaks,
boats or yachts.
I have seen people
in stable boats, just relaxing and
from it time to time swimming 
to enjoy the waters.
Some brave one’s dive in
the deepest...

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The sunlight streams to the earth below
Beckoning the flowers, "continue to grow"

The pillows of clouds floating by
Are highlighted in the airbrushed sky

A red tailed hawk and his prey on the move
Tracks made by a fawns...

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Ole Les set out by kayak from the shore

Big blue marlin rose from the ocean floor

  Nipped his bait, gave Les a tow

  Water-logged craft sank below

Friends shook their heads and said, "No...

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There is no beached whale
though a walrus protecting the sea
Whom will attack anyone
invading his territory.
Capsizing boats or kayaks then
killing many aboard
Causing serious harm and tusks
with dominance they've roared.
Ahh the walrus-stay clear from
If you see one...

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Every time something breaks
like the pipe in the wall
we heard gushing

this morning
my wife wants to call
a repairman because 

I can’t fix anything
except split infinitives
and dangling participles

and I usually agree 
but this time 
I mention the...

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