Montreal Born
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Born in Greenfield Park, 89 years ago
Across the St Lawrence River from Montreal
Feel nostalgic
Last day tragic
The end to an amazing (hopefully) 89 years
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Categories:
st lawrence, age,
Form: Limerick
GNRT DAY 41 FROM LE CHATEAU FRONTENAC TO A TREEHOUSE
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We’ve stayed in a wide variety of places on this long cross country jaunt.
One night we’re in Le Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City
the next two nights we’re in a tree house in Vermont.
We’ve g...
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Categories:
st lawrence, travel,
Form: Rhyme
CNRT DAY 38 QUEBEC CITY AND MY HAT
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We had this lovely tiny house booked in Quebec City
but they canceled our reservation a little while back…
so we took that as a sign from the Gods of travel
and made reservations at Le Chateau F...
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Categories:
st lawrence, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Lakes Acronym Spells Homes
...The Great Lakes acronym spells homes
I chose titled topic by a fanciful whim,
nevertheless still consider my knowledge
of aforementioned material slim.
Housing multivarious biomes
register ...
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Categories:
st lawrence, adventure, america, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Rivers' Dream
...St. Lawrence river in the spring
when a lake makes the ocean its' dream
shallow ice and sand bend the wind
the twigs begin to twitch and spin
sandwiched like a water gin
buds burn thr...
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Categories:
st lawrence, celebration,
Form: Free verse
When Cultures Collide
...When Cultures Collide
Where the river ends
And the ocean begins;
Cultures collide
And history’s tide,
Erases a way of life
For the indigenous people.
St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Welcom...
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Categories:
st lawrence, culture, education, history, native
Form: Verse
The Gop Presidents Club
...The GOP Presidents Club
Nineteen Republicans have occupied the Oval Office since 1861.
Around the table gather GOP presidents from Lincoln to Trump,
Sipping bourbon and wine and diet cola...
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Categories:
st lawrence, america, education, history, patriotic,
Form: Verse
Line For Line
...Above the St. Lawrence pens Line
who reads like a glass of fine wine
If one were to choose
from her list of Haikus
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Categories:
st lawrence, poetess, tribute,
Form: Limerick
Terrasse Dufferin
...As the night air warmed us,
The music had drawn us,
To the ambience of the Terrasse Dufferin.
We were mesmerized in awe,
To all that we saw,
As the music and dancing went on.
In the warm ai...
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Categories:
st lawrence, imagery, river,
Form: Rhyme
The Great Lakes
...Pellucid pearls in northeastern
North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan,
Huron, Erie, and Ontario
(HOMES acronym) dearth
largest group of freshwater l...
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Categories:
st lawrence, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Epic
Upstate Blues
...It can be kind of depressing,
living in upstate New York,
because of that damn city,
that grand ol’ attention whore,
I cannot go anywhere
without having to explain
that I don’t live in a boroug...
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Categories:
st lawrence, city, culture, funny, how
Form: Rhyme
At Montmorency Falls
...air
cooling
like a drink with
a single ice cube
like a stalk of lavender
bathed in
the bitter wind
its vegetable mind
suddenly
remembering winter
stony cliffs
stand upright
preci...
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Categories:
st lawrence, identity, river, travel, water,
Form: Free verse
The Great Lakes - Part One
...Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America
since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron,
Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Cana...
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Categories:
st lawrence, beauty, blue, heaven, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Great Lakes - Part One
...Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
Straddle Canadian...
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Categories:
st lawrence, creation, environment, joy, sea,
Form: Epic
My Beautiful Place
...I've seen the Rocky Mountains
From Alberta to New Mexico
Heavenly reaching cathedrals
Rock walls like stained glass windows
Death Valley's crystalline sands
Sparkle like moonlit seas
Red orange...
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Categories:
st lawrence, beautiful, beauty, love, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
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