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Tag Archives: Yellowstone
Can We Talk?
Dear Friends, Here is a letter e-mailed to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Ashe is considering plans to permit wolf hunting in Wyoming. I post this letter in the continuing hope that words have … Continue reading
Posted in Nature, Poems, politics, science, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
Tagged animal rights, Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, fish and game, hunting, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks, national parks, nature, poems, poetry, politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, Yellowstone
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Weapons of War
Weapons of War The mighty rage ready their weapons steel their hearts polish their hate Their adversaries, having nothing to polish, avoid the fray armed only with craft, skill and a survivor’s will
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Tagged Defenders of Wildlife, Endangered Species Act, hunting, national parks, poems, poetry, politics, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wilderness, wildlife, wolves, Yellowstone
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The Coming and the Going – Wolf Shadow
The Coming Black shadow at the forest edge grows and deepens darkens to a thicker ink begins to quiver moving now into the meadow a black wolf emerges from my imagination The Going Rested, satisfied returning to the shadows satiating … Continue reading
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Unregistered Guests
The Best Guests Guests for the evening arrive unannounced perch quietly outside the window under the eaves gone by daybreak – no laundry to wash or meals to make – • • • • a raven feather waves a good-bye … Continue reading
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Yellowstone Tales – Part 3 – The Black Wolf with the Blue Face at his Kill
Manners The black wolf with the blue face dines with reserve wiping his mouth carefully with his tongue taking time to savor the flavor nervously watching for unwelcome company but retiring graciously at frequent intervals so the humans, should they … Continue reading
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Tagged animal rights, animals, birds, Endangered Species Act, national parks, nature, NRDC, poems, poetry, politics, ravens, wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
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Yellowstone Tales – Part 2 – Last Light
Last Light Last summer’s light bathes the forest in the soft glow of evening setting season lingers its easy ways packed and ready for the long journey south
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Yellowstone Tales – Part 1
My Brother the Wolf* My brother the wolf sings his music under clear stars a chant I recognize but cannot name haunts me My brother the wolf hears the fear and longing in our hearts sees confusion at a glance … Continue reading
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Little Red Riding Hood Meets The Three Little Pigs
Lamentation Kill for pleasure kill for hate kill to merely eradicate It’s been done before and will happen again the sword proves mightier than the pen Powered by myth fueled by fear reason alone will not prevail here No safety … Continue reading
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Make Way for Baby
The snow was so deep in places, the buffalo traveled on the road a lot.
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Surely Blue
Mountain Bluebird Where sky meets mountain in tones of blue shy songbird cloaked impossibly in cerulean flits to the yellow green willow Surely Blue Strong but soft rich but subdued quietly sure not cobalt not royal not baby but bluebird … Continue reading
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