COVID-19
has ripped our sports fabric to its very core
Football
bowl games, March Madness, Kentucky Derby as just a few we have had to ignore
But
in the Great Land, the Land of the Northern Lights and North to the Future hope
is near
The
Last Great Race with 60 mushing teams will again on March 7, 2020 appear
1,000
miles against the Arctic winds, ice and snow
And
after but a few days alone with your dogs in the cold you go
A
race that brings out the best in dogs and men and women to never give up
No
matter how much the despair of not winning or maybe not finishing fights to
erupt
A
race that stays open until the last musher alone with dogs days from the winner
behind
Crosses
for the Red Lantern trophy the Nome Franklin Street finish line
Only
in Alaska to honor the great Serum Run
Do
lonely mushers against the odds struggle in the race they have begun
If
Climate Change is really in our future an on the Iditarod Trail the ice and
snow melt away
May
the sleds have runners with wheels so we preserve the serum sleds that mushed
the serum to diphtheria slay
Look
for race updates on the Alaskanpoet.blogspot.com blog
A race so memorable should have viewers as through the wilderness the mushers
slog
© August 27, 2020 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
Alaskanpoet for Hire, Poems to Admire
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