Mountie Gets His Man
...Crime never pays, sooner or later the long arm of the law will reach you.
Quote by poet.
Sergeant Tim Wheeler’s shift was nearing the end, it had been a long day.
He put his coat on, and t...
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Categories:
whitehorse, prison,
Form: Free verse
Love you like a Brother
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We were canoeing on a sunlit stream
A shadow of a willow, then a golden gleam
We entered a cathedral, white branches made a cover
And I hit you on the shoulder and said I loved you like a brothe...
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Categories:
whitehorse, brother, family, friend, friendship,
Form: Lyric
The Homeless Poet
...A homeless poet
A few days ago, I was walking home with my dollar store notebook in my hand as I walked. I was deep in thought about how I was going to fill these 250 blank pages. A voice called o...
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Categories:
whitehorse, for him, heartbroken, home,
Form: Narrative
Trapper Dan's Mammoth, Part Iii
...III.
Dan found himself between
the angry mammoth and the cliff.
He had no choice but to retreat,
though the fall his flesh would rip.
Then about six feet down he saw,
a tree growing out of th...
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Categories:
whitehorse, adventure, fear, mountains, nature,
Form: Narrative
Trapper Dan's Mammoth, Part I
...I.
Trapper Dan Slocumb sat on down
in the small Whitehorse café.
The gold rush gone, ten years now,
he’d turned to furs to make his pay.
That day he spotted Red Billings,
carving away at a la...
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Categories:
whitehorse, adventure, fear, mountains, nature,
Form: Narrative
Dixieland Ghost
...Dixieland Ghost
In the South. Deep in the hills.
There is a forgotten town. Of a war past.
On a clear night you can see an old schoolhouse.
Next to a grave yard of soldiers from the past.
When t...
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Categories:
whitehorse, horse,
Form: Free verse
Without Lips
...sease
Had I known of the pain
I wouldn't have changed
[verse]
She won't die
She lives every time I try
So I kiss
It's like I'm kissing with her lips
Now I know
What was missing behind the wheel
And I feel
For the first time it feels so real
[listening to "Whitehorse" by Die! Die! Die!]...
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Categories:
whitehorse, change,
Form: Lyric
Always
...Vapors of emerald and jade ribbon the hauntingly beautiful sky,
and I sat in wonder, transfixed, mesmerized
For me, it moved, more like danced
to a melody that only the heavens could hear
For it ...
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Categories:
whitehorse, dedication, friend, life, light,
Form: Free verse