Mountain Scene

MOUNTAIN SCENE In a distant cleft Inaccessible In that shadow region Too steep Even for mountain sheep That’s where I now mentally wonder Where I wander Deep beneath the glacial flow Where many an age ago Some thin-skinned tropic beast Perished in the slow advancing snow Now the sculpted peaks surround Like tomb markers that sky Overlie that time so long gone by And the valley copse of shrubbery The boulders from one of which I spy This awesome grandeur Blithely push and weigh A virgin landscape’s hopeful, bright new day