Lone Dog Poems

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1.
A Night In The North

Have you ever spent a night in the North 'neath the
limbs of the sheltering pines,
When the silence stabs at your pounding heart and the
sounds play tricks with your mind?
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2.
Run Terry, Run

(A tribute to the courage and determination of Terry Fox)


Run Terry, run! Run Terry, run! –
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3.
The Call Of The Loon

Grand symbol of the northern lakes
Where you've returned once more,
The echoes of your eerie cry
Awake the distant shore.
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4.
The Great Chief Tecumseh

Noble Tecumseh;
Chief of the Shawnee;
Where do your naked bones
Rest `neath the soil?
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5.
Education Celebration

(An 'Education Week' Rap)

Education, education;
There's nothing quite like education!
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6.
A Father I Don'T Know

I have a father whom I do not know.
He left our family many years ago.
I often wonder why he went away.
Oh, how my life has changed since that dark day!
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7.
Witch's Brew

Witch's brew. Witch's brew.
Add a finger to the wicked stew.
Snakes and snails, lizard's tails,
A young girl's heart and an eye or two.
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8.
Kids' Stuff

(On Devil's Night)


Quick! Inside the house! Dim the lights!
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9.
The Campfire

A match that's spent. A failed attempt.
I must find wood that's drier.
A puff of smoke. A flicker weak.
A flash! A flare! A fire!
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10.
Plate Tectonics Revisited

On a cold but sunny December day,
I wandered down to the ice-strewn banks
of the Detroit River
and observed, before me, a flotilla of ice rafts
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