Poetic License
...I not sure I’ll renew my poet’s license this
year, most of the keepers have been kept
with the biggest ones caught, stuffed and hung
on the walls of tumbledown fishing lodges.
Although there are...
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Categories:
portages, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Dw's Essential Existential Canoe Tripping List
...Cherry paddle you carved a few years ago.
Short portages in with good trail, except for
One boggy bit to breed mosquitoes.
Mosquito repellent for said boggy bit.
No motorboats after first portage...
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Categories:
portages, river,
Form: List
The Castle On White Otter Lake
...The Castle On White Otter Lake
That rustic, old log castle
Stands facing the lake.
Built by hand, by one man
To acknowledge his presence,
In a changing world, he felt
He could not part...
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Categories:
portages, endurance, nature, tribute,
Form: Verse
Soul Stance River - 27
...My God, there is no end to the hulking body of these mountains,
I've asked everyone to just leave me alone for awhile as I rest on my knee
stupefied by the enormous, unending expanse of the most ...
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Categories:
portages, adventure, courage, leadership,
Form: Epic
Wild Blueberries
...Wild blueberries taste
beyond the pale
of domestic cultivars,
sweetness cut by granite acidity
underlain by the spice
of marginal existence.
A blueberry’s destiny
is realized through consu...
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Categories:
portages, nature,
Form: Free verse
Joga Bonito
...J oga bonito means play pretty in portages
O nly the top of all soccer players get a chance
G ot to be able to kick the ball left and right
A mong them are Christiano Ronaldo, rhonaldino, and ma...
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Categories:
portages, sports
Form: Acrostic