Journey through America - in memory of the murdered poet Will Bell

Journey through America with reference to American poetry

To Miami,  I am bound
Bahamas & St Thomas, 
San Juan too
Onto Grand Turk and
sail onwards to grand view 

On a train LA 
San Fran
Diego 

South, I am traveling past Cambria and pine trees
Moro Bay and
wine to please, 
Historic San Luis Obispo
Curved bay Santa Barbara, 
Ventura, then 
LA 

A little of my 
trip to 
San Francisco, I go 
across the bridge 
Golden Gate 
and Monterrey divine, 
I taste the Napa
and sample wine 
Mud bath at Calistoga, 
Sonoma Enoteca
Eureka! 

[b]Robert Lee Frost, poet -San Francisco 1874-1963[/b]

I take in Muir Woods
To be a little understood, 
Sausalito 

Can't forget Lake Tahoe
Through the Black Rock Desert 
And the buzzards 
To Elko and Humboldt River
Idaho sure does deliver 

A little more at Twin Falls
I make Snake River 
Down to Jackson Hole
And Salt Lake shiver 

Give me a day at Moab
And the rapid Colorado,  
Bryce Canyon and Coconino
You'll see the Mojave Desert bravado,
Past Seligman at 7
A gambling man 
in gambling heaven 

So down to Vegas and Mammoth Lakes
Zabriske Point to Half Dome and more, 
Granite floor

Grand Canyon unforgettable 
South Rim
Battleship 

Another side to describe, 
Not forgetting the drive 
to Salem
to watch a witch
I went, 
Gloucester and Rockport 
Maine 
Mountains White
In heaven again 

[b]Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Poet,  Maine - b1807[/b]

East Coast Niagara
The Berkshires, I'm in
Massachusetts 
Smoky Mountains
 Tennessee, 
God's mouth 
Appalachian New England 
Georgia in the south

New Hampshire stole my heart 
The bears and moose 
Deers apart, 
Down to Stowe
And Vermont too 
Bridges old
And bridges new 

Old Sturbridge Village 
My eyes do pillage 
Water mills
And flower thrills,  
I head to Cape Cod
My life to God, 
Walk the dunes 
Massachusetts and 
Mayflower tunes 

[b]Emily Dickinson, poet Massachusetts 1886[/b]

Bring it on Route 66
Ozark and Springfield 
Cowboys and Comanches
Albuquerque and Santa Fe
Along the trails, 
Navajo way 

If you ask my favorite 
To satisfy my mania
The Battle of Gettysburg 
Or perhaps Philadelphia 

[b]Charlotte Temple 1794 Philadelphia 
Author Susanna Rowanson[/b]

From the Autumn colors New England you'll see
O' Boston, 
Time for tea 

Quebec City 
Sing a ditty
 ol' man can, 
Montreal Vieux Port, Notre Dame

Can't forget New York
Long Island 
Watkins Glen wine 
Lake Seneca, 
Manhattan skyline 

[b]Walt Whitman, poet Long Island 1819-1892[/b]

Did I mention Chicago
1673, 
Black Hawk defeated 
Lake Michigan 
Mississippi

[b]Langston Hughes, poet Chicago
1902-1967[/b]

....up Hancock Tower
Spot the park
Lincoln
Washington
Grant 
A dream enchant  

[b]Gwendolyn Brooks, poet 
Chicago -1917-2000[/b]

I haven't forgotten Texas
San Antonio
Alamo
Davy Crockett way to go
Defeated Mexican ho ho ho 

[b]Karla K Morton, poet, Texas[/b] 

Then on last leg,
 deep south journey 
Memphis Tennessee 
Holy Holy

Stroll along Beale and hear the Blues
Country music Nashville 
Happy Tunes

I'm roaming the Quarter French in main
Voodoo on Bayou street 
Lake Pontchartrain 

Down the gateway to Miami where I began, 
You'd be a fan
Of 
South Beach
Art deco
Everglades 
Key Largo

[b]Will Bell, Miami poet 
Murdered 2011[/b]

That's my trip to USA
I'd do it all again one day