mountain shadows moon
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mauve mountain shadows
creep across verdant valley ~
purple moon rises
(August Full Moon – Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest)...
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Categories:
tlingit, environment, moon, mountains, native
Form: Haiku
child moon
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babies weaned and flown
mothers bittersweet goodbye ~
empty nest syndrome
(September Full Moon – Tlingit)
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Categories:
tlingit, animal, bird, environment, goodbye,
Form: Haiku
Hoonah - Tune of Camptown Races
...We're on an Alaska cruise - Hoonah Hoonah
Seeing many scenic views - all de Hoonah day
Gonna sail all night - gonna sail all day
Spending money in the tourist shops - all de Hoonah day
Skagwa...
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Categories:
tlingit, travel,
Form: Rhyme
ancient embers -
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my chief ...
thoughts go back to that again -
the day you found me on the plain
so bleeding from a musket wound
and dying, slow, with fear and pain
my own kind l...
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Categories:
tlingit, appreciation, farewell, father, fire,
Form: Couplet
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:
tlingit, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse