Best Mount Poems

Where forests stretched for miles, and Spirit Lake
lay at its foot, there stood a rebel peak.
One day the earth beneath began to quake.
What havoc Mother Nature was to wreak!

The tremors kept occurring till the day
two craters which had formed began to merge,
erupting ash. Wise folks...

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Burping sulfurous fumes
its fiery belly heaves
and gas and ash erupt
knocking me to my knees.

Beneath the pumice beats
a throbbing heart of heat,
and I can feel its pulse
surging below my feet.

Treading on crackling skin
I weigh each step I take
or risk Icarus’s fate
and pay for my mistake.

I approach...

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I have seen you flash by
Amidst thick green foliage and swaying pines
Like a distant silver dream
On receding skyline
But was never satisfied
For a close encounter I craved

I did then go up
The Space Needle in Seattle
Hoping to have a clear view
Of your snow-clad balding pate
That thought profound...

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Please don’t crowd about
While I shout about
To be loud about
What I’m proud about

When you see me go
In my tuxedo
To my gazebo
Atop Mt Ego

You aren’t permitted
Just I’m admitted
Since I’m best fitted
And most committed

To begin my quest
Because I am blessed
Having passed the test
To ascend the crest

So please...

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I looked up at the mountain,
the result - I was in awe!
George, Teddy, Tom, and Abe,
were the faces, that I saw!

Faces carved in granite.
Fourteen years, to get it done!
Over 400 people did the stonework,
completed - October 1941!

Why these four were chosen,
may have been a mystery?
It's...

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Only an inspired mortal such as I,
could feel the stimuli
synonymously woven in unison with the indigenous people,
who for centuries have inhabited this place.
The ‘Aotearoa Northland Maori’
Relating their verbal legends of old
complementing one’s majestic stance
here in the wilderness, a place where
the ancient Gods of Olympus would...

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Just like mushroom clouds
Massive plumes of hot ash are
Eruption Columns




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He spoke of the poor in spirit standing there on the mountain side
Over 15,000 people would hear it this very simple spiritual guide
About all those who mourn and the comfort that they shall find
As the eight Beatitudes were born as Jesus so beautifully defined

Jesus would...

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I conquered the
Mt. Everest ofdistrust and
pain that kept anchored me down like a sunken ship in the Atlantic
your verbal abuse kept me off the radar
as I hid away my shame
my dismay was my watery grave
 
My lonesome journey was onerous
My arms and legs began to...

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He knew the time was nearing
When he would have to depart
So he preached his last sermon
In open space, atop an Olive Mount 
He fed those present one simple meal 
Made sure that they had had enough
Softly, blew the wind through the silence
Then his voice echoed...

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Mount Fuji


white-capped monolith
silent, silver sentinel...
a sleeping beauty


Form - Haikuette

05-31-2014

Contest:    Three Lines are Fine
Sponsor:    Debbie Guzzi
Placement: 2nd...

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Beautiful mountain
Japan is in my backyard
Tacoma Fuji...

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Orange streaks highlight an eastern Sicilian sky
a fiery display putting added pressure 
on an already muddled and ashen mind
seeing the unseen still fearing the fairest dream

Slight breezes push a scent of despair to the front
fading slow where the swirls of yesterday still comfort me
but I...

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Pompeii at the top of the stairs,
Her negligee glowing like the moonlight.
The trancelike eclipse chases her to bed.
The milky softness of her gown —
birds like stars stun him to moans.
The thickness of her hair haloes the pillow
A mirror reflects his volcanic shadow.
The universe — the...

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Only inspired mortals can feel the stimuli
            synonymously woven within the indigenous people
                     ...

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