Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Northern Verses: Poems of Alaska and the Yukon
    Northern Verses: Poems of Alaska and the Yukon
    Northern Verses: Poems of Alaska and the Yukon
    Ebook93 pages46 minutes

    Northern Verses: Poems of Alaska and the Yukon

    By Dennis Lattery

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The idea for this book evolved out of what he saw as a need for a new Christmas poem for children. His poem was titled The Christmas Girl. Nothing of much significance in that genre has been produced since How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Efforts to sell the poems idea for a children's book fell on deaf ears in the publishing world but other work gradually spun off its writing. He found he liked writing rhyming prose, especially in poems about the North country where he lives. So here is Northern Verses, including The Christmas Girl.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublication Consultants
    Release dateJan 5, 2015
    ISBN9781594335259
    Northern Verses: Poems of Alaska and the Yukon
    Author

    Dennis Lattery

    Dennis Lattery arrived as an eight year old, fresh off the boat, at Juneau, Alaska, in April of 1949. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, with the exception of two years United States military service in “The Lower Forty-eight,” he has lived continuously in Alaska since that time. His writing career began in 1976 with an article published in Selected Alaska Hunting & Fishing Tales by Alaska Magazine. He has been published since then in a number of national sports magazines and has produced a book about growing up and living in the Forty-ninth State. Dennis and his wife, Sharon, live in Chugiak, Alaska. His daughter and son-in-law live in nearby Anchorage. He can be reached at lattery@alaska.net.

    Related to Northern Verses

    Related ebooks

    Poetry For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Flood, Fire and Chrome

      Jan 2, 2018

      Flood, Fire and Chrome
      13 min read

    • Article

      Sweet Relief

      Sep 22, 2021

      Sweet Relief
      4 min read

    • Article

      Cold calling

      May 31, 2019

      Cold calling
      13 min read

    • Article

      The Galápagos Mermaid

      Apr 1, 2023

      The Galápagos Mermaid
      9 min read

    • Article

      KIDS & BASSIN’

      Feb 7, 2022

      KIDS & BASSIN’
      5 min read

    • Article

      Sound addiction

      Apr 16, 2019

      Sound addiction
      7 min read

    • Article

      Alaska, Unfiltered

      Jan 2, 2018

      Alaska, Unfiltered
      12 min read

    • Article

      Following The Flow

      Aug 31, 2019

      Following The Flow
      11 min read

    • Article

      Across The North Sea

      Mar 13, 2018

      Across The North Sea
      11 min read

    • Article

      Sailing In The South Pacific

      Sep 3, 2020

      Sailing In The South Pacific
      7 min read

    • Article

      Sea of Tranquility

      Oct 15, 2019

      Sea of Tranquility
      6 min read

    • Article

      Ice Bound

      Sep 8, 2019

      Ice Bound
      9 min read

    • Article

      ARNOLD RIVER Winter Fishing

      May 21, 2021

      ARNOLD RIVER Winter Fishing
      7 min read

    • Article

      Out There

      Apr 24, 2018

      Out There
      6 min read

    • Article

      Never Enough

      Oct 20, 2020

      Fall is the hungriest season. Migrations are in full swing, and creatures by the score are on the move and feeding intensely — from the 11 sanderlings scurrying up and down the steep beach face as I walk with surf rod in hand, to shoals of fish trail

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Tale Of One That Got Away

      Sep 16, 2020

      A Tale Of One That Got Away
      4 min read

    • Article

      Family Lines

      Jun 24, 2021

      Family Lines
      5 min read

    • Article

      Kodiak Courage

      Mar 31, 2022

      Kodiak Courage
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Wild Life

      Aug 31, 2017

      A Wild Life
      10 min read

    • Article

      A Surf-Smashed Home With History

      Oct 3, 2017

      It’s nice to have a place to return to year after year, through thick and thin, from childhood and the teenage years to your single-minded, hard-fishing adult decades and into whatever lies beyond. For me, that place is a mussel bar in southern New E

      3 min read

    • Article

      Crossing The Bar

      Mar 11, 2021

      The Edwardian period of English yachting is best remembered for the great cutters and schooners of the racing scene. From Cowes to the Clyde professionally crewed yachts competed for big-money prizes while fortunes changed hands by way of wagers on r

      7 min read

    • Article

      Fish Hippies

      Jul 13, 2021

      Fish Hippies
      12 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Aug 7, 2020

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tom Cunliffe

      Aug 7, 2020

      Tom Cunliffe
      5 min read

    • Article

      Through The Ice

      Jan 9, 2020

      Through The Ice
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Northern Verses

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Northern Verses - Dennis Lattery

      Miner

      BILLY JOHNSON’S PARTY

      It was Billy Johnson’s birthday

      And Dawson friends had planned a feast.

      On the first boat from St. Michael

      Came a pair of cloven beast.

      The plan they made was simple,

      They would have a drink or two.

      The boys providing liquor

      And the porkers barbeque.

      They set up the party area

      Behind the Malamute Saloon

      With a fire pit for the cooking

      And tables well festooned.

      Long before the cooking started

      Party staff were on their way

      To various states of inebriation

      Despite the hour of the day.

      John Biggs was cooking master,

      He had lots of cooking skill.

      He set about butchering portions

      He could handle on the grill.

      Right in the middle of this process

      Distraction came to intervene.

      His knife slid off a meat bone

      And cut off a finger clean!

      It was a lucky thing that old Doc Green

      Had been included in the revel.

      He was a fair old country doctor but, right now,

      As plastered as the devil!

      They rushed Biggs to Doc Green’s office,

      John too soused to feel much pain.

      I’ll make medical history, the doctor mumbled,

      And reconnect the thing again.

      Back at the birthday party

      The cooking was resumed

      Another chef stepped in the fray

      And the barbeque consumed.

      Early come next morning

      A terrible mistake had come to light

      Doc Green had sewed a meaty pork bone

      Onto Biggs’ stump last night.

      Since that fateful cook-out,

      One question continues to linger,

      For sure a feast was had by all,

      But where was Biggs’ finger?

      BREAKING TRAIL

      Established trails folks seek and like to travel

      Are popular and sought with great renown.

      But in my view just like the fabled headgear,

      Too many jewels can spoil the crown.

      The ease of a well constructed pathway

      With a foot bridge crossing every creek

      Represent both the comfort and the security

      Which most average hikers seek.

      But I prefer to find myself a new path

      To secret spots that few have seen.

      An open ridge, a path that only moose know,

      Through berry patches where the bears have been.

      I have myself a private little waterfall

      And picked blue flowers that have no name.

      But I’m not sure that I could locate either

      If I chose to go that way again.

      But this is the way that I prefer it,

      To move about and breath a solo breathe.

      I’ll keep my little trails a guarded secret

      And never love my chosen paths to death.

      BOATING WHALE PASSAGE

      There are few things I can recollect

      No matter how I try

      As vivid moments in this life of mine

      When I suspected I might die.

      One such awful moment that I recollect,

      A terror in its class,

      Was in the dark aboard the Sally T

      When we hove up to Whale Pass.

      Whale Passage is a narrow channel

      With rocks across its eastern mouth.

      Whale Island sits on the north side

      And Kodiak Island to the south.

      Nautical charts for here are quick to note

      That danger is extended

      And when boating through this narrow Pass

      Prior experience is recommended.

      To make things all the worse that night

      An ebbing tide flowed from the west

      Opposed by a potent northeast wind –

      Conditions were not the best.

      Nick Troxell was captain of the boat that night

      At the wheel of the Sally T.

      The Seiner was fifty feet, or more, in length,

      And as trim as a ship could be.

      Nick owned a remote tract of beach-front land

      And I had bought the place.

      I was hauling goods aboard his boat

      And he would vacate his cabins space.

      He had fished these bays and inlets

      And he knew them very well.

      The weather it was very foul that night,

      At least …as far as I could tell.

      As we steamed into the Passage mouth,

      Between Shag and Ilkognak rocks,

      I began

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1