Best Mountain Pass Poems

Four friends and I, one Sunday, take a ride.
our church still closed just short of one full year.
We drive, white almond blooms on either side,
instead....

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It’s said that God bestows on us, each and every soul,
A special gift just meant for us, to make our lifetime whole.
How often I have...

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The trodden pathway of brown pebble stones and grass 
Leads to a hidden meadow below a mountain pass
Where soft gentle winds flow endless from blue...

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Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a...

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A solo pilot, lost in snow,
in a jagged mountain pass.
His eyes are trained upon each tree,
and the shape of each crevasse…
In an open-cockpit time machine,
the...

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The pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums,  beating in...

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Make a wish then live that way
Me, I don’t know what to say

Since one and one equal two
I simply do what I must do

The hardest...

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While I was waiting by the peaceful stream
I was lost in contemplation and dream
I looked up northward toward the mountain pass
Suddenly a cloud appeared, boiling...

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I broke my ties at seventeen,trying to find myself a life:
Sold my bike for sixty-five dollars,bought a ticket for a ride.
I was headed out to...

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There are traces of the sun
In your smile
Sparkle of the stars
In your eyes

Intriguing hint 
Of foxy guile
That makes me pause
And realize

That your tears are like...

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49 years past; a puppy was bought, picked up out of his pen on a pet shop floor;
he had honey brown eyes & an inquisitive...

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Matsuo Basho New Haiku Translations

Air ballet:
twin butterflies, twice white,
meet, match & mate
—Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 

Denied transformation
into a butterfly,
autumn worsens for...

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I can hear Thermopylae beckoning me upon my return
Leonidas’ voice calls me forward to battle with hardened pride

Time’s grains shifting bellowing out the past I...

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One never knows where a winding 
road will lead
A winding road can lead you 
up a mountain pass
Or a hill road winding pass
A winding road...

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Sunday Rose 
A poem about enriching your life with the love of your partner-in-life, inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom

As I walk quickly upon the steep...

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