Home North Poems

She’d been raped before

Just never by proxy

The birds flew south

As the Greyhound bus headed north

She would get it right this time

Rip his heart out

He would...

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(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...

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I craved not affection, a desperate plea,
Just whispers of worth, a glimmer to see.
No mountains I sought, no jewels in a crown,
But a touch of...

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To The North Pole Of Course  (Part Two)  
 
The farmlands, bridges and countrysides woosh by in a rush 
then vanish before my...

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In the hot A-Ga-Ming night
My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks
At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake

Start our own shoreline fire

Count...

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Swiftly, lightening
Flashes in the sky, singing ~
Melody so calm

...

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Santa has a problem,
Mrs. Claus is really sore,
Working one whole day a year,
She hardly sees him anymore.
Even on his days off
He's hanging out with elves,
Or...

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I was talking to my solitary self again, grumbling how life held no adventure,
And my parrot, Cherry, often echoed me, as moon echoes golden splendors.

She'd...

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It all started in North Carolina
Home of my heart and physique
I don’t think it’s praised in China
Because of such blazing mystique

It began at Keystone Camp...

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Canonball  by  Pearcemelville

Canonball  tearing throughtimbertthick
planks 
Canonball  rips thrufleshthroughout
theotherside a hole;:

canonfire        CANONBALL!
   ...

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Shortly after the naming they made arrangements to visit Jessica's home in Nordgrend.  Her father, Raðulfr, sadly, had also succumbed to the last ringing...

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Jessica, in time, became ripe with child, the only child that she would bear. 

“I know who that baby was,” a sweet young voice interrupted...

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The Council room, back on the fifth floor of the Keep, was quite busy upon their arrival.  They stood just outside of the door...

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They made a smooth grounding outside of the stable behind Dyndoeth's cottage.  As they did Rådyrvokter heard them and came out of the stable...

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Their sighting of the Village came more quickly than they anticipated, only a few hours after Joulupukki had mentioned it to Lumi.
   ...

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