Seafood Sundays
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*Been posting some heavy stuff lately. Time for a bit of levity.
"Hey babe, you're never gonna believe this. Crab fishing in Alaska has been cancelled for 2023."
"I don't understand, dear."
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Categories:
sockeye, humor,
Form: Narrative
Swimming Upstream
...a sockeye salmon
leaps into the jaws of death ~
bear yawning upstream
A Haiku with Movement - Nature themed Poetry Contest (Winner: 10th Place)
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Categories:
sockeye, animal, fish, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Land of Mine
...Mine is a land of golden rivers
And glowing sunsets that melt your heart
A long history of native people in harmony
With lush wildlife and four seasons
Rich forests covering vast expanses
Mi...
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Categories:
sockeye, beautiful, nature, ocean, patriotic,
Form: Free verse
Salmon Run
...Salmon Run
A flurry of reds emerges distorted from the river;
As the Sockeye Salmon return from the ocean,
Following the scent of their home stream water,
Swimming upstream to the place ...
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Categories:
sockeye, education, fish, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Alaska, the Last Frontier
...Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates...
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Categories:
sockeye, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
Fraser
...As we put putted out
into the estuary, the
sounds of the city
receded, the tang of
sea filled my nostrils
and the water turned
from brown to aqua.
Danny put out the lines
but all was qu...
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Categories:
sockeye, fishing,
Form: Free verse
The Log Cabin
...There’s a cabin in the mountains
The deer are everywhere
You might see a coyote
Or perhaps a big black bear
Close to where two rivers join
No game fish can be found
Until the sockeye salmon r...
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Categories:
sockeye, historywork, work,
Form: Quatrain
Under the Same Moon -3-Way-Collaboration-
...~Under the Same Moon~
P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely axis
Listening to our Tex-Mex of ...
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Categories:
sockeye, friendship, lifeworld, life, love,
Form: Couplet