Best Adirondack Poems

Soft leaves underfoot, mosaics of nature
Sleeping in shadows of yawning maples
Beneath these stretching branches I roam
Foot steps in rhythm with a woodpecker’s cadence
Humming to the harmony of dawn’s cool breeze

Sunlight weaves past distant mountain peaks
Warming my face, enhancing my vision
Miles evaporate like morning dew
Moments become...

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At the foot of the massive massif bluffs which bounce atop upstate New York,
The air is thick with suburban smog bottled beneath the mountains' unpopped cork.

The fumes from factories of the foothill folk have feigned a fluorescent flora:
Sickly neon trees which litter the mountains' feet...

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adirondack chairs
a twosome by the river ~
late summer sunset



Submitted on March 4, 2022 for contest H - HAIKU sponsored by CONSTANCE LA FRANCE

AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Originally posted on September 11, 2018...

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On the arm of the adirondack chair
(painted unafraid purple by a pale pink hand),
All new-penny cinnabar shine,
Noble as any bald eagle,
Ahead, which I guess may be side-to-side,
He watches tall as a robin into the
long-hot-shadow-waning-of-May ochre light....

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Along a winding, 
dirt-worn road,
mother and I explored the unknown.
Years of travel were exposed 
Where eroded  potholes and pebbles sank and
Leaves whirled and stirred
On our way
To Twitchell Lake.

Through hilltops and valleys
We travelled along
Every bend in a corner
Every leaf sang a song
and through the desert...

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