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Jadehunter
Of cobbles and troubles And scant hunks of jade I'll tell you a tale Of the fortunes I've made For the north wind is blowin' And the gravel is froze The river sweeps by Carrying ice chunks and floes I launch in a backwater Gentle and smooth Dip in me oars Now I'm starting to move Thinking mainly of treasure Gemstones of worth Pulling steady and gaining My raft surges forth Out into the current Riding waves and white foam Like a turd at a flush fest I struggles and rows Now there's doubters and pouters And pundits galore Who'll state with conviction I'll not reach that far shore But I gets to my island Making fast to a rock And I pause for a moment To catch breath and take stock I've got hours of daylight Fields of cobbles past sight Woollen raiment and wrap 'Gainst the cold north wind bite So I sets me a cairn Takes up shovel and pack And I strides to a landmark Where at I turns back Now you may wonder what moves me To walk back and forth Through the dregs of an ice age On a steady straight course Where there's cobbles and shingles And boulders and grains And the most of them mingles With fish bones and remains There's serpentine plenty Mixed with granite and quartz Magnesite tremolite And strange other sorts Peridot and garnet In fire that was made But the object that lures me Is that rare hunk of jade Long ago, before time In the womb of the earth Where the rocks were all melted And flowed freely forth Some formed threads like asbestos Others cooled like glass When the glass filled the threads To form a fibrous mass A jade rill was born With orogenous thrust And awaked to the sunshine At earths outer crust Then came the ice In great rivers that flowed Carved chasms through crags Dragged with them a load Heaps of rock and gemstone And gravel and gold Cast colossal terrains In a mountainous mold The ice melted in torrents Scoured canyons in mud Leaving litters of lithe In the wake of the flood The hunters that came In the absence of ice Made their tools of stone Using crafty device They found one above all That could shape and endure And Jade is the one I now seek to secure So I watch pretty careful As I make my way long Turning rocks with my shovel Thinking Words to a poem Then my attention is caught Through the corner of my eye By a rock that looks different From the others nearby I moves close for a look I see fracture and form Lustre and cleavage And polish and more So I brush off the silt And I rolls it around I lifts it up lightly And taps it for sound The weight is just right Color a green shade I draws a great breath And I hollers it's Jade! Now older boulders Than me and you Has rowed up this river A time or two And some come lately To lookie loo With their tacky attire And tasteless tattoos But Jade waits for none On its way to the sea Only vigil will find it Take care, attend thee Live large, act small Keep your mind on the chore Then Jade will find you And elude you no more PMD 04/02/04 The woodlands of British Columbia have been my home for work and play since 1970. Jade hunting is a hoby, and my poem tells you how to discover your own gemstone treasure. To find more Poems about rural B.C. visit my website http://www.douglasfirdoors.com/poems_style/jadehunter.htm
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