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Portaging Poems - Poems about Portaging


Premium Member Rapids Ahead
...Rapids Ahead I hear the canyon echo the cascading eddies volume, Growing louder as I paddle closer to run the descent, To enter the lake past water, hidden rocks and seething foam, While......

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Categories: portaging, adventure, endurance, perspective,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 9
...Chapter 9: Portaging Older Dams Eleven Minnesota dams we had to portage All without clear use for folks today But as the Mississippi is a ‘navigable’ river. Owners are required by law to transp......

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Categories: portaging, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 8
...Every journey worth its salt has rocky places Bank to bank filled with frothing white water, The economics of avoidance, steering a lean course, Avoiding higher peaks that thrill - vouchsafed to......

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Categories: portaging, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Canoeing the Mississippi - Part 1
...Overflow of the waters of Lake Itaska You carry your wealth to the waiting world, Mighty Mississippi, half savior, half sewer, Plant and animal wastes, dissolved minerals, Venting prairie delu......

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Categories: portaging, boat, dream, journey, nature,
Form: Blank verse

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