Nature Narrative Poems

Early mornings, bright ice  blues as life wakens 
birds  and squirrels  scratching for seeds and nuts
black crows pound at the tree or...

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The trapper looked for the oddly-dressed man,
but could no longer see him, or his tent.
He glanced around, so supremely confused,
now where the devil...

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Eamon heard the rocks skitter away,
scree tumbling down with his every step,
descending from towering Mount Gilborne,
to a lake below where he could rest.

He knew a...

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Boots crushing frosted grass-blades,
sun still an ember to the east,
clad head-to-toe in blaze orange
as I climb into the tree stand.

Strap myself in, high on this...

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It was a Saturday night
I couldn't sleep well and tight
I slowly pull the hinge of the door
The only sound was my footsteps on the floor

As...

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Touch And See 

We are a society of folded ears. We opt for our apps 
 through touch tone effect instead of real conversation. 
...

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I spend a lot of time these days watching the stars.  It’s hard to understand how far away they are when they seem so...

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...Bill passed on back in sixty-nine,
and I buried him on that same hill,
next to his friend Timlin Rivers,
beneath northern lights and the night’s chill.

And I...

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He shrugged and said,”If you’ve no home
I guess you could stay for a while.
But you will have to learn the traps,
and that means many cold...

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It was back in nineteen-nineteen
when Timlin Rivers checked his traps,
by one he found just a weasel skin,
did not know what to make of that.

Why would...

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down south somewhere
in mid-winter, there were
two birds -- one with 
a broken wing and one with
nothing wrong
well with the exception of  his friend
with the...

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My campfire illuminates the scattered stones  of the chapel ruin. 
Conjuring contorted shadows who swell like mighty hands 
Proclaiming the insanity of the divine....

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  born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
 ...

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When I was a kid on the bus,
I looked at all that surrounded us,
out the window I always gazed
seeing old fields, half-trees, half-hay,
beyond them rose...

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Twas the night before deer season
and all through the town
all the hunters were campin';
there was no one around.

The guys weren't all snuggled 
and warm in...

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Three of us went out to bowl
For this is done by many, the young and the old
We talked as we waited and stood in line
For...

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When You Look Back, THERE IS THE CROSS!!

How many times over the last 40+ years have I looked back upon my
life, sin, failures and sometimes...

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This adventure of faith commenced 
when the Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ 
personally introduced Himself to me;
and such encounter I can never forget.
With compassion, He...

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Mystery Of The Poltergeist

It is said, “All things in balance”,
yin has it’s yang, plus has it’s minus,
all things in balance is natures way.

There is however...

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Jackie Robinson and I go way way back
To the spring of nineteen forty-six
A Montreal ballpark on an April afternoon
The day the world was transfixed

The color...

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