North Shore, Lake Michigan, 2025

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 North Shore, Lake Michigan, 2025


The water so placid and cerulean blue

But tomorrow it will be something to rue

For weather is coming whatever we will

Storms are coming with waves like high hills


For this is a lake, a Great Lake at that

With waves that build to make sailors go “drat”

They build-up and build-up for hundreds of miles

To erase even veterans’ seafarers smiles


The Lake, which one of the Great can it be?

Is it Superior, Huron, Ontario, or Erie?

It’s one that runs mostly North and South

It’s Michigan, one great watery mouth

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