Best Mountain Man Poems

the eagle watches me 
from high above 
it has finally come to this 
I stand on this ragged lookout 
this jagged rock 
alone 

my friends are gone 
Bruce "Bear Paw" Perry 
Billy Fly and Blackpowder Bourgoin 
died in these mountains 
one by one 

we shouldered...

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I know how to live off the land
I'm a survivalist
I make do with whatever's at hand
I'm a survivalist

It's a mindset,
it's a lifestyle
You must have a soldier's discipline,
be able to endure hardships for a long while

I'm a mountain man,
got no time for guile
I can ascertain your...

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Through the mist 
Upon this mountain

Home to a man so long ago

Living through seasons
Ranging warm to cold

Been here as many years
As he is old

The most experienced mountain man
He was once told

This place is beginning
To finally take hold

Yet where would he move
This is all he has...

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To the mountain man with the emerald eyes
 Did you ever stop to realize
How many have been touched by your kindness
Your gentle words of encouragement to those in distress
Always there to lend a hand or a smile
And take away he pain and dears if only...

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Alright all you pigeon chests
Came the sound of thunder from the open door
As Big Bad Bart replaced the space
Giant mountain man of lore

Making his way into the bar
Sweeping Nancy boys out of his way
Stepping up to the the jukebox 
Kicking it till some good ole...

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From Chicago to Tampa Bay in a Ford Granada some time in the mid- 70's. Unfortunately, we were not interested in mountains, because we took interstate 75 and drove through Tennessee 'at night'. We felt the elevation but never saw the Smoky Mountains.  ...

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The vertical view of mountain has seen by mountain man
He has makes imagine in his brain.
He want to see top the hill,he pray in heart makes a frame.
On top of the mountain is dream of man .
The mountain touching the clouds when he will be...

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Mommy, Mommy it's the cider doughnut mountain man
From when we went trick or treating , Remember?
The Lincoln Log cabin in the woods way up on the mountain
Hot cider with a cinnamon stick Chocolate glazed doughnuts
Can we go there for Christmas? Please

Jimmy, shush! Your embarrassing Mommy...

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VII.
Reid’s eyes widened with the realization,
she was with child? How long had she known?
His mind reeled and more men gathered outside,
by this time his cover had been long blown.

He glanced down upon red Wolf struggling,
then at the woman who haunted his dreams,
forced to chose between...

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V.
She knew he was right, and had little choice,
winter had set in, travel was hard,
but Reid had killed elk, frozen meat to spare,
the ponds he worked were never that far.

Mink kept her guard up when they ate each night,
but over time saw he was a...

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VI.
When his pa had died, Reid had just felt fear,
he’d been a child, the pain overwhelming,
but to see Eagle Vision lying dead…
he felt a blind rage that left him seething.

“Who did this?”he asked, in a voice like death,
his mother looked up and said, “The Cheyenne.
It...

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I.
When he was born he was named Reid Gibson,
and his parents weren’t the richest of folk,
didn’t have money to buy land back east,
so off to the great frontier they did go.

This was way back in 1823,
and young Reid had only just reached age ten,
his father...

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III.
“Eagle Vision says since his own son died
he’s felt a hollow no raiding can fill,
that men should be fathers, pass their wisdom
to adopt you as his own is his will.

“From this day forth you’ll be Absaroka,
the people that some others know as ‘Crow.’
He says the...

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IV.
It was two years later, at age nineteen,
Reid was out checking new traps in a pond,
just his routine, when he heard a loud shout,
ran for his rifle, what was going on?

He raced through the woods, heard a horse running,
came to a clearing and saw a...

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II.
They did not use Reid Gibson that kindly
as they drove him swiftly on up the trail,
when he fell behind or misunderstood
the two would both strike him without fail.

Was he to be held for a big ransom?
if so they would be facing a long wait,
he had...

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