China Tour Thoughts 2
China Tour Diary Moment #2
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AZURE MOUNTAIN GORGE
Mile after mile we take the China roads;
Highways beckon now as our tour meanders;
Vistas speak beauty as coach bears our load;
Silence fills endow as wind blows plunder.
Springtime in China is warm and windy;
Dry air dehydrates and skin feels so dry;
Our tour agenda is surely easy;
Our fare is repaid with curious reply.
The days fly so fast, our daze frames amaze;
So quickly five days have brought swift passage;
Glimpses will outlast this brief springtime craze;
Our sojourn flings rays and soul-heart message.
Azure Mountain calls to visitors here;
A boat ride to see the rock formation;
Hear echoes that fall as voices briefly steer;
And then most clearly the cave attraction.
We traverse the gorge down the mountain side;
Waltz through the caverns and rocky terrain;
Stumbling caves to forge a new sense of pride;
Bear the rock haven where cold blasts refrain.
Up and down and up, round and round the bends;
Left and right and then, deep into depths steep;
This gorge-ous roundup tames stamina's trend;
Struggled to withstand the thin air that seeped.
Trekking through footpaths carved ancient rock route;
Winding as we go to explore stone realms;
This excursion maps theme park walkabout;
Going with the flow beyond thoughts undreamt.
There's hidden beauty in mineral glow;
We gaze in wonder with exploration;
Stalactites comely, stalagmites' wet flow;
Cold caverns thunder with loud intrusion.
Two hours underground in subterranean rock;
We struggled to breathe oxygen-thin air;
This marathon round shows our ageing stock;
Coldness brings fond brief in lifelong affair.
Yet the final trek with long flight of stairs;
One step for each day of the calendar;
An auspicious track to challenge life's fair;
Delight finds sure pay in fond agenda.
We rush to get out of stone cavern womb;
Borne by a new zest for life that feels free;
This deep walkabout an emergent tomb;
Each feels new-found fest in earthly beauty.
Then a ride across the fabled gorge span;
Airy cable lift as paired moments fly;
Awesome this toss to ride glen to glen;
What better a gift to enjoy such highs.
Dearest and I see far below this gorge;
Deep waters flow swift in movement that winds;
Embrace the lovely tour moments that forge;
A gift beyond gift in miracle finds.
Love and life greet joy in peace lived profound;
Here faith and hope stride with grace that firms heart;
This brief touch employs nature's transient sure grounds;
Time and space fling ride as each event starts.
Whoever comes here will remember this
Place where stone mountain gorge stands silent guard;
Where history steers the transcendent bliss;
So memory gains balance in soft-hard.
Gorge-ous this mountain that tells a story;
If only we know the path that we take;
To brave life's terrain in truth and beauty;
Know then that we show life that we dare make.
Leon Enriquez
23 May 2014
Lijiang, China
Yunnan Province
Copyright © Leon Enriquez | Year Posted 2014
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