Walloping Mountain
Bated breath stills Arctic style cruelty
Clustered lichen mapped boulders crouch
Exhale cackles an altitudinous eulogy
Mountain leer leans with tortured slouch
Tested foliage tentatively reappears
tougher than Summer's youthful splurge
Bent are the branches, by windswept years
Trunks resist standard vertical urge
Wizened torso raspy ribs shed bark
Becomes much needed garment covering
Tawny coloured critters, burrowed, smart
- sharp mist crystal bluster buffering
Frigid naked twigs survive, fixed, jagged
Pom poms of teal-grey tight leafed stayers
Twisted branches turn handles, haggard
Wicked witch wind pure Winter conveyer
Thirty mile wide wisdom vista captivates
Risen from sea level, knowing as a century
Harking seagull's coastal hug hesitates
Too fickle to make mountain her sanctuary
Wise scamper from door to door directly
Watch the mood change from inside cave
View whisked momentarily by fog's trajectory
Altitude on tiny astute psyche engraved
8th August 2020
Brenda Chiri, - Sponsor
Nature Rhyming Poem Contest
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