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    The Basin: Patterson Gap Poetry, #3
    The Basin: Patterson Gap Poetry, #3
    The Basin: Patterson Gap Poetry, #3
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    The Basin: Patterson Gap Poetry, #3

    By Daniel Warren

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    The Basin is a fictional area located somewhat in Polk County Tennessee and Fannin County Georgia. If I have roots they are there.

     

    The Basin is another volume in the Patterson Gap Poetry series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Warren
    Release dateMar 7, 2022
    ISBN9798201235475
    The Basin: Patterson Gap Poetry, #3

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      Book preview

      The Basin - Daniel Warren

      DEDICATION

      ––––––––

      To Sarah

      CONTENTS

      Basin Poems

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      An inch of ground

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      Armurchee

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      Change

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      Climbin' tree

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      Lockdown

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      Old mule

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      String-bean breakdown

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      The book and the stream

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      The hill

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      Water boy

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      Raindrop

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      Faith Poems

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      A Closing of a Door

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      A fall of rain

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      Ceres

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      Mountain skies

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      Prep and plan

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      Rended

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      The crossing

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      Mud dam

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      The scroll

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      The simple plan

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      Would I?

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      Family Poems

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      Grandmothers

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      I am ten

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      Little lives

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      City-side

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      Auden Auden

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      Human Condition

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      Fevered dreams

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      Look up

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      Mountain crepes

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      My walk

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      Nightly news

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      Pasture

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      The interpretation

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      The quest of man

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      The Resistance

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      Those without

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      Waiting

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      We just slip away

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      What is not

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      You win, they lose

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      Life & Death

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      A hard rain

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      A last breath, a last sigh

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      Fields of corn

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      Flowers faded

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      Jerusalem Crossing

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      Some other way

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      Wet snow is falling

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      Love Poems

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      Call & Response

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      Love's limits

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      The instructions

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      Thread

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      Nature Poems

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      A season of sun

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      Appalachian flowers

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      Bumblebee windows

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      Climbin' tree

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      Concerto's end

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      Dry stone

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      Early Spring

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      I came upon

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      Recourse

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      Runners

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      The art you teach

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      The quiet earth

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      White bark tree

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      White flowering tree

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      Wild geese are calling

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      Miscellaneous

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      Banana and Mayo

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      South of the Past

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      Without words

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      About the Author

      Of the making of books there is no end. So what? These are my creative footsteps. Historical documentation for the world to come.

      ––––––––

      - the Author

      To The Reader

      As an experiment I've decided to place beside many of the poems in this book my thoughts on its origin or maybe just a comment. Not all are commented and not all have origin narratives because I've forgotten or never knew where the poem came from.

      Basin Poems

      An inch of ground

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      If I give in

      they'll take

      every inch

      of ground

      in the basin

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      From the deep bog

      to the tall white pine

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      They'll take their time

      but they'll keep comin'

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      I've known they

      want to change

      everything

      everywhere

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      And I dare

      to stand my ground

      until they grind

      me down

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      And take my

      shavings

      to Atlanta

      for some prettified

      garden cover

      ––––––––

      But I'll hover

      over them

      and below

      for roots aren't as easy

      to burn out

      As are men.

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      Comment:

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      I've seen the county I live in change pretty much beyond recognition in the past sixty years. I'm a conservative at heart (not the political kind) in that I think all change should be well thought out and not just for the whims of some developer.

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      So I imagine all the trees that used to stand in this county but are now gone. But maybe there roots are still there, underground, unseen, and who knows what unforeseen consequence will come?

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      Armurchee

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      At Armurchee

      we fought the war

      from behind

      split-rail fence

      and barn door.

      ––––––––

      Garrett

      called me

      Mr.

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