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