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Okanagan Poems - Poems about Okanagan


Premium Member Uncontainable
...Uncontainable (Music playing) “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, o......

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Categories: okanagan, character,
Form: Prose
Premium Member An Ancient Wondrous Being
...There’s an ancient thing of wisdom in a cavern in the sea; deep down in murky waters lying, sleeping peacefully. At times it will awaken take a travel-contemplation or perhaps a ......

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Categories: okanagan, animal, fantasy, myth, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Call
...The Call For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I had good or bad news, it was just natural for me to want to call my m......

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Categories: okanagan, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Coquihalla Holiday
...Loaded up and gassed Got a four-day pass Ramblin' in the Rockies ...Coquihalla holiday Crested o’er the pass Hope the brakes’ll last Needle Peak behind me ...Coquihalla holiday Driver’s t......

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Categories: okanagan, horse, nature, vacation, word
Form: Rhyme
Kraken
...In sunny days of joy we climbed aboard, Wide eyed, Wellingtons and Duffels. Sat on salty varnished benches, handed weighted feathers and orange string. Kraken was the one to know, Six fish on......

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Categories: okanagan, youth,
Form: Free verse



Wildfire
...Thunder and lightning Without any rain Spells big trouble Here we go again Our spring flooding season Has barely came to an end Wildfire season is now here So hard to comprehend The f......

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Categories: okanagan, anxiety, fire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Say That, Nessie Is Dead
...They say, “Nessie is dead”, because there haven’t been sightings, for years. Ogopogo still lives, as does M’okele M’bembe. What if they are one in the same? Oceans, caves and cavern......

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Categories: okanagan, animal, mystery, myth, nature,
Form: Prose
Wild Horses
...Wild horses gallop over the fermented lands of the Okanagan in southern British Columbia- toward the mountains- toward the Pacific ocean- It’s a living flight of beauty- a sta......

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Categories: okanagan, horse,
Form: ABC
Premium Member A Tall Tale
...I must say Peter, I've had the most extraordinary day. It all started when I woke up this morning. I was brushing my teeth with this new toothpaste Pepsibrite and literally after just a few minutes, ......

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Categories: okanagan, fantasy, fishing,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Treedom
...Walking through the orchard Amongst so many trees Fruit lay on the ground rotting The trees had a strange disease They were lost in their apathy No longer fruitful anymore Sheltered in a lan......

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Categories: okanagan, friendship, journey, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member An Ancient Wondrous Being
...There’s an ancient Thing of wisdom In a cavern In the sea; Deep down in murky waters Lying, sleeping peacefully. At times it will awaken Take a travel-contemplation Or perhaps a short vacation To co......

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Categories: okanagan, animal, nature, ocean, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ashes
...Everywhere she went She sprinkled some ashes Leaving a part of him Releasing a bit more of her sadness lessening that ache as she celebrated him remembering his goodness I was not everywhere......

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Categories: okanagan, emotions, for her, for
Form: Narrative
Awaken Taste Buds
...Awaken taste buds Lovely Linda Makes food tasty Um um good Peach Chipotle BBQ Sauce Your taste buds won’t Be the same Chipotle is the one to blame. Peach & Apple Salsa Time to have a ......

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Categories: okanagan, food, wine,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crystal Clear
...The window guys came to install the new glass. They took away the old glass that had become filled with moisture. The seals had failed, the result of nineteen years of Okanagan sun beating down on th......

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Categories: okanagan, family, love,
Form: Prose Poetry

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