Best Capitan Poems

Shadows of light and darkness
Contrasting images of El Capitan
Half Dome sliced by an ice age glacier

I met him that day in Yosemite
Touched by the unique...

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I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul...

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Yo Ho!, Yo Ho! The pirates life for me
The Jamaica Jewel’s sails are full on seven seas
Skull and bones flying high on the main mast
With...

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Carved by the hand of God you are
              awesome, heavenly, take my...

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A winding road, up through the trees, finds California gold
The heart will race, and breath escapes, to see this land unfold!

Dad cherished, this, his boyhood...

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Yosemite’s huge boulders
Sliced in two in the Ice Age
Half Dome and El Capitan
Both carved by a sheet of ice, a glacier

Peering down from the mountains
Buttercups...

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I spent a year or two aboard
A sea faring vessel 
Through the gale and through the rain
With Lord Neptune I did wrestle 

Me Capitan was...

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Yosemite’s marvels
glaciers from the last Ice Age
sculpted Half Dome and El Capitan

alas, though I worship the almighty Hand,
I am but sand
    ...

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It had been a long train ride for me then and it had been fun
I was coming home after Marine Corps training was finished and...

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Learning to embrace me.
From my receding hairline
to the scar I received
when I was three.
My adaptability
and changing
spirituality. 
For the things I keep
under lock and key
and the...

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Chilling in the caravan
 learning hand to hand
 man to man
one bloody palm over the world as we orbit n twirl
Spin a twin 
flip her...

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Steve loves mountaineering, he was the first, 
Visually impaired person to climb El Capitan, 
Solo, and there he met Karen Darke, cyclist, 
Who got him...

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Better Then Romeo &Juliet
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Corrupt me Darlin,
I am your velvet playground
you wandering, endless sea
let us sail into the unknown
when the waves crash us into the rocks
we...

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None other state can stake the claim
That Texas has to worldwide fame
No where else would ever be the same

It’s people are the proudest, yet
The truest...

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Ah, the air - so sweet!
Early Spring essences ...
Pine cones, lilacs and cherry blossoms,
With a wispy and not unpleasant hint of wood smoke,

A waft of...

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