Best Grand Canyon Poems

Some people are voices
On the edge of rocks
With steep slopes and cliffs.
Some people are echoes
At the bottom of walls
Carved by rushing waters....

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My journey starts from the point
where your neckline takes a sudden plunge,
a path trodden so many times
yet again becomes unfamiliar..
tip-toeing along those mountaneous curves
I reach the top of it
to conquer the peaks once again.
Call of deep valley from below
accompanied by your soft song
makes me ...

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From the Painted Desert, head west
Past sagebrush, brittle bush, desert scrub
And The Petrified Forest at rest
To the Rocky Mountains above
Go past the Continental Divide
Below Douglas firs and pinyon pines
Head down the sunset side
Where the Colorado River cuts and winds

Many generations ago
Native Americans were inhabiting squatters
There...

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When something is:

So big you can't comprehend

So beautiful there are no words to say

So impressive you feel you stand on holy ground

So perfect people journey worldwide just to gaze upon its grandeur

So endless the river will forever change it

So colorful each day with the rising...

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Awesomeness I see
Always looking back at me
God’s own artistry

Written By John Posey
01/06/13...

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Mighty canyon, you're grand it's true
There is no other quite like you
You, whose awesome beauty takes
Half a state to wander through.

From hither to your river snakes 
Whatever course she undertakes
So reddish brown her muddy hue
Freely flowing lake to lake.

Oh mighty canyon is it true
That little...

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A canvass, deep, has been composed
between red's blend with purple hues 
Cruel paths of glaciers, mighty swords
deeply carved a threshold grand
Each turn of compass, leaves a brand,
forever leaves a breathless word
Green rivers whipped to whitened froth
have nourished pines upon the ridge
It carved a place exempt...

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From an abyss of the darkness, I hear incantation 
It slowly ascends, sun awakening canyons,
Windward it heralds those sleeping, to wonder....
with a visual score, that deepens with thunder,
sweeping me under, to lighten the soul


-at first tint of light, my own shadow leans over, to...

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This is an ode to Sally-Jo,
Her silver spurs and the horse she rode,
As their mighty leap slowly unwound
They jumped the Grand Canyon in a single bound,
But it was deemed wind assisted as a hurricane blowed....

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cascading water
flows into braided rivers
rush of white water

palaces of sandstone
towering monolith
statuesque splendor

weathered mosaics
ancient cathedrals carved in stone
natures masterpiece...

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The Grand Canyon is like the brain
with deep, unexplored fissures and tributaries, 
the main route well known by now.

I am walking, walking inside my mind, 
a grand canyon, a planet of canyons, a system
of planets. The exploration may become dangerous

I might lose my job, forgetting...

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I left home in early July, headed to arid Arizona
to explore the Gran Canyon in all its splendor;
the ride went smoothly, stopping at a rest area
to refresh, eating breakfast and hurrying back...
the bold spirit of explorer opened a closed door,
and thinking, " All will go...

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Dedicated to my late Grandma 
For Silent One's When a man loves a woman (man only contest)

The Grand Canyon

Through the cracks besides her eyes
A golden age that required tenacity
In the bags under her fading vision
A lifetime of the tears she’s wept 
For dreams she could...

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The Grand Canyon_what a sight
Aerial view a delight
Six passenger plane
Over the canyon strains
Into barf bag said Last Rites  

Inspired by Carolyn Devonshire's contest about vacations
Not an entry
About twenty-five years ago, we went to the Grand Canyon
and during the short stay decided to go on...

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We are truly blessed with splendid scenery in this great nation,
Overwhelmin' our senses with awe and inspiration!
Visitors to such places may view them with differin' perception,
And the spectacular Grand Canyon is certainly no exception!

A preacher, for example, might fall upon his knees in exaltation,
Praisin' and...

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