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A love poem to Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, composed on a raw, rainy day over a mug-up in a roadside café with a sweeping vista of Bonne Bay and the Gulf.
lyrics
Salt and sand and surf and seagulls
Sea and silence surrounding self.
Chamomile, raspberry, bottle brush, bog myrtle,
Pitcher plant, goldenrod, bearberry, balsam fir
Long low line of this Long Range land.
Bare black blocks of lichened boulders
Barren bones of rock lie broken
Wrack and rockweed bobbing
Ribs and ridges reaching
Coastline curves in crustal cracking
Black, volcanic, Cambrian, Precambrian.
Harsh unhurried hush of tidal hissing
Shatters shales and flat black slates that rattle,
Roll, recede, returning rounded, pebbled cobbles.
Great and gray as glaciers gliding
Clouds cowl mountains mirrored in masses passing
Hiding Lomond low and folded.
Bonne Bay gray and blue moves blowing
White wings rising, whitecaps tossing
Gray wings grapple, gray bay ripples,
Races, runs, and rolls the river seaward.
Soar and sail and fly -- cry, seabird!
Sun sets red on ruddy ridges.
Sheep seam the shorn shores to the spruce
Tracks of the flock stitching the cliffs.
Lookout's long, low line lies leeward
Lighthouse, gleaming, gathers evening from the Gulf.
Lynn Noel brings traditional song and heritage arts online to create community. Lynn has a voice of striking clarity and
power, equally at home in rhythmic chanteys and flowing ballads.
Lynn is a respected song session leader on both sides of the Atlantic and the producer and host of the Mermaid's Tavern online folk club. She is currently Program Chair of the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA)....more
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