Long St lawrence 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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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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The House That Jack Built (Part 1)

Fatigued from years of gleaning storms of snow, sleet, and rain,
 I was yet an innocent and therefore unashamed.
 Her smothered walls creaked and her shingled roof leaked,
 The...

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THE LEGEND OF CELINE,  THE  WHITE  LADY


In French Canada  no legend is more tragic than that of Celine, 
A beautiful Quebec maiden who, long  ago, fell in love with Alain....

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The House That Jack Built 3
Frequently we youngest four gathered bottles that were strewn in ditches,
 And along the railroad track,
Then glide our feet over well-worn steel rails on the journey back.
 We'd exchange empties...

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The GOP Presidents Club

Nineteen Republicans have occupied the Oval Office since 1861.
Around the table gather GOP presidents from Lincoln to Trump,
Sipping bourbon and wine and diet cola.
Reminiscing times basking in each other’s company,
With smiles of...

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We’ve stayed in a wide variety of places on this long cross country jaunt.
One night we’re in Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City 
the next two nights we’re in a tree house in Vermont.

We’ve gone...

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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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It can be kind of depressing,
living in upstate New York,
because of that damn city,
that grand ol’ attention whore,
I cannot go anywhere
without having to explain
that I don’t live in a borough,
I live three hours away!

Can’t go...

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We had this lovely tiny house booked in Quebec City
but they canceled our reservation a little while back…
so we took that as a sign from the Gods of travel
and made reservations at Le Chateau Frontenac.

Le...

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If I was rich and could live anywhere I wanted,
      I would buy my very own island on the St. Lawrence;
Somewhere between Ontario, Canada and New York,
   ...

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For what's it's worth, here's my recollection

Of my young years growing up in Canada in the 40s

Right off the bat, you may think the war years

Were difficult for me and my family

With rationing of food...

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FAREWELL   TO    NOVA    SCOTIA


A net of cables stretching overhead  in the mist to Dartmouth Bay:
Our boat slips under Angus McDonald bridge out into the Atlantic greys,
Leaving...

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When Cultures Collide

Where the river ends
And the ocean begins;
Cultures collide
And history’s tide,
Erases a way of life
For the indigenous people.

St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Welcomed the French
To the shores of ‘Kanata’
At Stadacona;
With ceremonial greeting,
Exchanging gifts and ideas.

But only the...

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Just remembering the 50's and the good old days,
 When "I'm Bored" wasn't part of our vocabulary.
 We had hopscotch, skip rope, hide 'n seek, and tag,
 Life was full of adventure, dreams and mystery.
...

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Mohawk Kaniatarowanenneh 
Meaning Big Waterway
This part of America
I hope to see one day
 
This archipelago of dotted lands
In pictures they look oh so grand
Greenery green, like emeralds that float
Thousands of, natures boats
 
The smallest one...

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air
cooling
 
like a drink with
a single ice cube
 
like a stalk of lavender
bathed in
the bitter wind
its vegetable mind
suddenly
remembering winter
 
stony cliffs
stand upright
precipitous
steep
layers of earth
of rock
 
waters at the rocky edge
slide toward the brink
and pause
and plunge
over
and...

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ST.   LAWRENCE   NORTH   SHORE

Late October time to go for this rover
The seagulls  bleat in lonely disorderly anguish.
River is open but the lake’s solid over
And they  know they...

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I've seen the Rocky Mountains
From Alberta to New Mexico
Heavenly reaching cathedrals
Rock walls like stained glass windows
Death Valley's crystalline sands
Sparkle like moonlit seas
Red orange cactus roses
Saguaro and Joshua Trees
Green meadows covered with weeds
Deep purple to crimson...

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FREEZE - FRAME  OF   QUEBEC  CITY

Time-capsule towers over  St.  Lawrence:
Heights of Abraham look imperiously down
On the Ile d’Orleans spread over the river,

Chateau Frontenac’s fairytale frivolous turrets, 
Le  Parlement’s...

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As the night air warmed us,
The music had drawn us,
To the ambience of the Terrasse Dufferin.

We were mesmerized in awe,
To all that we saw,
As the music and dancing went on.

In the warm air we could...

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Polar caps in melt will flow
undulation currents blow...
ocean,bay,rivers and streams
tributaries from estuaries...

The arctic,beaufort,and the baffin
hudson,james,and the st.lawrence
into 5 great fingered lakes
flowing into rivers make...

The mississippi and missouri
flooding's caused many to worry
heavy snow,and heavy rains
which only...

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