Best Gorge Poems

Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, KY

I traipse the course of a forking, rambling stream
Barefoot from the rounded top of one small boulder
To another, the slashing strikes of cold water
Startling my every careful leap, place to place,
Landing with deep, short gasps, yet wordless
In an utter joy...

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I saw a gorge, a remote vision from distant, far far away from the surface, how sharp, how precipitous, how deep!

A  singular, unsurpassed, cavernous  cleft;
a crevice among two gigantic hills, how intense and steep!

The rocky walls of the mountains though withering,
canopying the remote sight from...

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All you can eat Stellar Buffet
Location: Lumera 3 in the Andromeda Galaxy
Sector: 377.21

Come all or come one
But don’t forget your ticket stub
The only place in our Galaxy
You can get Klingon grub

We have Vulcans to serve you
If you want, yes with a tray
We have the latest...

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Partnachklamme
The most beautiful place


Above the Bavarian resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen,
There winds a country road which leads to the Partnach gorge.

Hikers are passed by less hearty tourists transported in hay wagons.

On the left side of the road, a river can be spotted through the lindens.
The river...

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I stand at the edge of a canyon wide
Looking out over the tree-lined gorge
Two miles at least to the other side
Unless one chooses the river to forge,
Once was a tedious journey to cross
We always planned to take a full day
Now, it’s twenty minutes to crisscross
Giving...

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The Cliffs and The Gorge.

Chance upon chance-- lover to lover,
The truest love discarded—lost romance,
Never either again found another 

Two seek the self-same love forever asunder
The hollow hearts hath much pain, 
Never again, never again, to replace the crossed-star love flame

And in the weening half-full hearts...

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All yours, God said, eyes sweeping 
Over an expanse of lush greenery across 
A wide, deep gorge. A rolling carpet 
Of lotus and daffodils in the shade
Of hillocks--juts of jumbled winking rocks.

All mine! ... Across this gorge! I mumbled.
How? ...  I should need some...

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A track leads through a gully in the bushland
Following the least line of resistance in a haphazard plan
The kookaburras and the magpies squawk happily away
The sun on my back makes me want to stay

Walking to the rock face broken on the gorge face
Two wallabies look...

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Grand Canyon and Giant Gorge

Met nature who was trying to forge
A giant, great, gargantuan gorge
Which to do did take many years
And raindrops that appeared like tears.

Water ran continuously and rampantly
As if sounds of music in a symphony 
Each instrument with a sound of its own
Might...

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Fruit Cake
Late make

Brisk whisk
Taste mix

Eggshell
Crunch hell

Bake cake
Fail make

Next time 
Buy mine

Eye spy
Fruit pie

Ate all
Now full 

Was glad
Now sad

Big tum
Fat bum

Join gym
Slim thin

Treat earnt
Not learnt

Cheese scone 
All gone

Lick lips
Want Dips

In shop 
Jaw drop

More cake
Pig take

Next move
Good food

Gorge war
No more

     04.11.20...

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Vibrant chroma dots the mountains and valleys;
we hike the Red River gorge, taking in it’s
majestic pigmentation; leaves of October
crunch beneath booted feet.

We take our journey with care, as the cliffs
can be deadly in an instant; still, the crisp
Kentucky mountain air is rejuvenating to 
lungs, too...

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Like a rash, since 1943..Made ss friends, real neighbourly
Introduced them to his kin.' Off his nose he lost no skin
He took a percentage; called himself a survivour, never got
A train ride, though..Never was a camp insider.' He built up
His wealth, by deception and stealth. He's...

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Eighteen and feline lean 
Headed for all those places I've never seen 
As I hit the road with a big grin 
Setting out so I will win
In a place, I have never been 
I must not be late 
I have a job that awaits
 
After...

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threat of winter, violent sea
no more shall mischief mark
will hold my scar under its moon
and trace its haunted arc

wander night in deepest sleep
breathe into her mist 
blackest heart on inside bumps
the reckless knotted fist     

‘til fearless flies of fire rise ...

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*Situated in the south-western region of Mauritius, a dream island in the Indian Ocean.

Written on 9 November 2023


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