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Canuckster
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since 2002-01-09

Posts 285
New Mexico, USA

0 posted 2002-01-15 05:15 PM

Blueberry Time

Day breaks clear in pale whisped tones
Painted transiently on powder blue canvas
Brush strokes fade as light intensifies
Dark lake mirror absorbs and gives back hues

Rasp of aluminum on quartz sand
Knock of oars stowed carefully
Thud of life preservers carelessly tossed
Motor clamped
gas line primed
puff of oil smoke
Engine roar, bow cuts ripple accents
Island hopping begins

Evergreen piles of granite splashed
Feldspar pink, mica black, multi-colored quartz
Lichen warts raised on dapple shadowed rock
The bang of boat on stone as beachhead is made
Troops armed with baskets wicker and plastic
Invaders seeking blue gold amongst fern and pine
Marveling at plants impossibly rooted in rock

One slag pile denuded the saga continues
The allies island hop taking purple prisoners
Secured in plastic Quonsets
Piles grow impossibly high till bow points home
Stained teeth and lips held high to the wind
With muffin and pancake dreams yet to fulfill

© 2000 Bart Breen

never try to teach a pig to sing
it wastes your time AND annoys the pig

strbbux
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since 2001-12-19

Posts 3859

1 posted 2002-01-15 06:40 PM

This is great. your words are so very descriptive, lovely, muffin and pancake dreams,,,,love it. floria

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

2 posted 2002-01-15 06:47 PM

(smiles) Mmmmmmmm...blueberry pancakes and muffins, I love it!!! (sigh) You always write so beautifully, sweet friend, this is so sweet and yummy! We all love you so much, sweet friend! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Bart, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2002-01-15 11:33 PM

Bart--Sounds like wonderful fun to me. Felt like I was there through your words...thank you.

Startime
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since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

4 posted 2002-01-15 11:43 PM

Oh my gosh this poem made me think of Blueberry Hill back in New Brunswick...some great golden days of summer were spent there eating more than we picked...

**big hugs**

thanks for bringing back the memories

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

Bill Charles
Member Patricius

since 2000-07-11

Posts 10619
highways, & byways, for now

5 posted 2002-01-16 12:29 PM

Canuckster - I would love to make this trip searching for blueberries and such. And then to come back to the cabin for blueberry pancakes and muffins, yummy....

BC

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

6 posted 2002-01-16 12:32 PM

around St Agathe is the place for wild blueberry picking in Quebec! nice write

Mysteria

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since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

7 posted 2002-01-16 03:42 AM

Yes sounds like lots of fun! We are blackberry pickers here in B.C. - well those are free! Great poem, and Canuckster (must have been a Canadian once right?) Howdy from another one.

~* CARPE' DIEM *~

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