Tag Archives: Environment

ATHABASCA

ATHABASCA

Along the Icefields Parkway
(prettiest road in the world)
winding from Lake Louise to Jasper
lies a glacier that feeds three oceans
(Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic)

It takes a hundred years for a snowflake
falling on the top to make it to the bottom

Before a snowflake that falls today
finishes its journey the glacier may be gone

On the other side of the road in spring
water falls down a long face of rock

They call it the weeping wall
it may still be there

THE OLD BLUE PLANET / BLUE ROAN

THE OLD BLUE PLANET / BLUE ROAN

She’s been rode hard
and not put away yet

She’s got a bad scraped hide
from a long rough ride

She’s been secticided and pesticided
and damned sure blind sided
with more spray and dip and hot feed
than any ten could stand or need

So think about loosenin that cinch a bit
and givin her a good long rest
and a deep drink of that old cool water
from the spring she likes the best

And stop that “Greenhorn” spurrin
whatever else you do
or you’re gonna have a good horse
dead under you