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The Expert in Death
...The Expert in Death She reluctantly closed the book, locking the painting back inside her mind, then a sudden frisson of emotion, another surreal-reveal moment, and her smile was flint; lips u......

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Categories: whitefish, death, imagery, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Shopping List
...For Terry Flood,* since you insist, Here, in rhyme’s my shopping list: Orange juice and Starbuck’s (iced, Even though it’s overpriced), Bagels, Swiss and muenster cheese, Whitefish salad, fr......

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Categories: whitefish, food,
Form: Couplet



A Trail Treaded Lightly- a Tribute
...He sang of the wreck of 1975 Memorializing sailors who didn't survive Honouring heroes in the story he tells Visiting the cathedral still ringing its bells 29 chimes every year for their souls ......

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Categories: whitefish, memorial, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Whitefish Moon
...consenting consort a silvery fluorescence ~ liquid lightning flash (November Full Moon – Algonquin)......

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Categories: whitefish, environment, fish, moon, nature,
Form: Haiku
Ruth and Dave's
...There was a store in Brooklyn selling Food we’d often crave. The owners were a couple Known to all as Ruth and Dave. On weekends I was sent there Walking just a few short blocks To buy bagels......

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Categories: whitefish, memory,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Ss Edmond Fitzgerald
...In memory of the SS Edmond Fitzgerald November 10, 1975 Seventeen miles Northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan Lake Superior Twenty-nine crew men are cradled in a watery grave no distress cal......

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Categories: whitefish, anniversary, death,
Form: Free verse
Torch Lake - Passing On the Torch
...He walked up from the lake Throwing open the door of the glorious day Like a smiling OB-GYN snapping off his gloves With a toolbox in hand Delivered to my dad the good news. “I’m certain this ......

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Categories: whitefish, boat, celebration, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
The Fridge
...If you’d compare my fridge and yours You’d marvel at the food each stores For everybody’s taste’s unique, So open up – let’s have a peek. I’ve orange juice and lots of cheese And coffee (Star......

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Categories: whitefish, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member At the Old Fishing Lake
...at the old fishing lake In a kingdom full of whitefish And the mussels are never filleting. ~ at the old fishing lake I remember I was oystering That moment my soul grew scalloping ~ And the ......

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Categories: whitefish, analogy, engagement, fish, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Moon Glow Ride On Torch Lake
...Steering our boat across the moon glow Like a fork stabbed through cream We careen in the sheen of upside down light at 3:30 A.M. The July night tries to close on us like a lid The result of ......

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Categories: whitefish, boat, freedom, good night,
Form: Free verse
Summer Holidays
...I think of the holidays with my parents, Each summer we would go on holidays together I remember the beautiful North Bay cottage, There was an old-fashioned stove. Our mother would cook deli......

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Categories: whitefish, appreciation, blessing, friend, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SS Edmund Fitzgerald
...The Great Lakes Engineering Works built a new boat S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald, t'would soon be afloat The people that owned her needed a name President of the company was given that fame. One ......

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Categories: whitefish, memorial, natural disasters,
Form: Narrative
Another Lesson Learned About Being Blessed
...walking away satisfied returning home fully recharged that will change come thursday morning i will focus my brain on forgetting....until the alarm goes off as i unpack, i begin to think about ho......

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Categories: whitefish, blessing, god, growth, thank
Form: Free verse
Gefilte Fish
...The company was wonderful; The meal was quite delish, All lovingly prepared except The jarred gefilte fish. But certain things you have to have – Tradition reigns supreme – And years ago, gefilte ......

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Categories: whitefish, food, holiday, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Ruminations In the Parking Lot
...Why are the sea gulls shopping here, if not for "White Stag, "No Boundaries." or "Faded Glory?" Is there some other story? Coffee, Tea or You, or just practicing beach and gray-sky calls over concre......

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Categories: whitefish, urban,
Form: Free verse

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