Sea Salmon Poems

The salmon tasted like the seashore, 
like salty air and gulls crying,
flying overhead on the cold breeze. 

It tasted like relatives coming together
around a picnic...

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In the middle of the river stood a bear all aquiver
In anticipation of his first meal of the Spring
Just a ways away was fisher man...

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Fiercely flipping his tiller tail
The king’s snout turns to point the way 
To lead kin from a briny bay
Up a rustic roiling river
Of flowing falls,...

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I had a summer job at sea
The captain, the dog and wee me
A gill net set boat
And away we float
The salmon all caught with much...

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Like a Grizzly bear looking intently
    from the rivers rocky crest
          I hunger...

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A man in a black suit, and cane drawn
wandering above the sea of fog 
wildlife, mountains, lakes, and bog

Untroubled Heaven in his eyes for the...

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Fast runs the river flowing to the sea
 Through mountain valleys it runs on so free
 And up through the current the salmon will swim
...

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Spawn Of The Salmon

Fast runs the river flowing  to the sea
Through mountain valleys it runs on so free
And up through the current the salmon...

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Frothing, frigid fjords
Fling forth fine stippled
Salmon, streaking upstream.
Roe-rich fish, flashing
Fat and fulgent:
Spurred to spawn, to spurt
Then sputter -- spasmodic.
Spectral. Unspared....

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Dreams of ocean sea,
        landlocked like the Kokanee
          ...

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Rising up and flowing down of ocean
Cold salt wind a whisper in my face
Mind and body going round the motion
Fitting  with  the rhythm...

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