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Best Mountaineers Poems

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Premium Member Himalayas
Himalayas beckon everyone to come to its fold 
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Categories: mountaineers, mountains,
Form: Acrostic



The Black Cuillins of Skye
A fearful, jagged place
Yet wondrous to the eye.
A place for hardy mountaineers,
The Black Cuillins of Skye.

No place for the timid
Imposing in their might,
But to stand...

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© Gary Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountaineers, fear, inspirational, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Denali National Park
Travel with me to a nature lover's dream
Denali's grandeur is the unfolding theme
Expansive vistas paint a wondrous scene
Snow covered peaks look quite so pristine.

Morning sun...

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Categories: mountaineers, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Game Day
(Every year I write a charge for my team at the beginning of football season. It is a joy to combine two of my passions...

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Categories: mountaineers, football, inspiration, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Those Who Climb Mountains
Those who climb mountains
	live forever
	unless they fall.
They only drink icicle drip
	and chew thorns.
Their soles are like thin mattresses
	that are well used.

They breathe tinted air,
	unfiltered.
Over and...

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© Bill Yates  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountaineers, adventure, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -1
The bombers began to bleed
their heavy tears of death
from 20,000 feet above the breathless battlefield, 
B-17 Flying Fortress formations
moving with apocalyptic aplomb
the shadows of high...

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Categories: mountaineers, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Russian Mountain
Sacred and pristine Russian mountain;
here I am to ponder on your beauty;
From photographing you I cannot abstain!
Sacred and pristine Russian mountain.

Dear Russian mountain: 5861 miles...

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© Ivo Cos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountaineers, beauty, journey, language, mountains,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Hidden
HIDDEN

                      On mountain top
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Categories: mountaineers, mountains, silence,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Adventure
childhood innocence
freedom to roam natures way,
Galactic image.


Another day, adventures sought, friends to meet,
rise at five,  sun just rising, head for the fields,
long day ahead,...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountaineers, adventure, appreciation, childhood, happiness,
Form: Haibun
Avalanche and Aurora
they were up there, on the stage,
" exotic dancers", the term they 
gave; the tall one "Avalanche", 
the shorter, "Aurora"

long black limbs , Aurora's, graceful
steps...

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Categories: mountaineers, men, nature, sexy, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Privilege
Oh! How I long for that
one sweet moment of
loneliness, when the human race
decides to piss off, leaving me
to wallow in my own
company.
The pressurized world,
the ceremonious
corporate...

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Categories: mountaineers,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rolling Stones
Once upon a time in the lands from the north, south, east to west    
Navigating on the cold white sands formed of...

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© G. Jay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountaineers, funny, mountains, ocean, river,
Form: I do not know?
Climbing Mountains
Climbing Mountains


Sitting atop on the mountain; I'm leaning
against a crevice of a rock
I'm viewing the stars and the clouds
They have not waged mere wages of...

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Categories: mountaineers, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Mountains
Some mountains have been there since 
the beginning of time,
while there are other mountains that appear
right in front of us,
as we attempt to cross to...

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Categories: mountaineers, dark, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Abandoned Upland
Across the limpid and serene river, the oasis of the Wild West pioneers,
there are ivory and charcoal peaks waiting for mountaineers
to discover as they rest...

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Categories: mountaineers, adventure, nature, peace, placesurdu,
Form: Rubaiyat

Book: Shattered Sighs