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Trapline Poems - Poems about Trapline


One More Day

...One More Day

Always amazing
how well this life
goes right on without us
New images tread
where shadows have fled
old memories in the dust
Nothing left behind
but words to remind
we chased ...
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Categories: trapline, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The Trapper and the Brave, Part I

...It was back in nineteen-nineteen
when Timlin Rivers checked his traps,
by one he found just a weasel skin,
did not know what to make of that.

Why would bother to raid a trap
but leave the pric...
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Categories: trapline, adventure, family, friendship, grandfather,
Form: Narrative



Fur Trapper

...I zip swiftly along on my snow machine,
admist a white blanket with spots of green,
my trapline runs along this stretch,
Alaskan cold makes smoke of breath.

The snowpack has been good this year...
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Categories: trapline, jobs, life, nature, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things