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My Valley

The darkness accepts the awakening of a new day over the eastern rim of the valley floor. The distant highlands sculpted by nature’s wind and ancient ice accept this sun ’s morning’s gift of bright glistening golden crowns along their uppermost edges, as the lower masses blanket themselves in shades of soft blue mist. Sheared cliffs stand guard as sentries protecting all that lives on the valley floor. A meadow bounded by an emerald green forest that has given perch to the midnight stars for a thousand of years awaits the first ray of warmth upon its branches where a mountain jay trumpets with joy. Given this moment of tranquility, my soul returns to its resting place_ concealed by time, laid to rest by my brothers the Miwoks of the Yosemite; my valley for evermore.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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Date: 4/4/2015 10:28:00 AM
A beautiful verse surrounded by mother Earth and its funa..a wonderful place to lay your head..thanks.. peace gil
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Gil Garcia
Date: 4/27/2015 4:27:00 PM
Tony, sorry I've taken so long to respond to your kind words. My ancestors lived at the northern end of Yosemite, in Maraposa County. It was the 49ers that drove my great grandfather and my family out of the area. They too were miners and left with their riches hidden under the floor boards of the wagon. It never trickled down to me.
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Tonytocaa Camacho
Date: 4/4/2015 11:07:00 AM
Gil go to my poems under ur name then go to edit..ok
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Gil Garcia
Date: 4/4/2015 10:54:00 AM
Thank you Tonytocaa for your kind words, but I found a mistake and I don't know how to edit it? Help!

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