Best Switchbacks Poems

Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
(Inspired by CW McCalls’ song ‘Wolf Creek Pass’)

On a trip to see Dragons’ friend Drag, way out… in Texas…
Crossing the plains,...

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For seven months now, this exercise
class at 8 a.m. Forty minutes. Tedious –
one small rip across the smooth fiber
of morning. I don’t want to be...

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Lacing up my hiking boots
A backpack full of supplies
Heading out on a new trail head
As the sun just starts to rise

Switchbacks up the mountain trail
Waterfalls...

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How did I get here
why am I on this highway I don't remember why
why would I drive to Denver
what does the sign say up ahead...

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The Paths
by Franklin Price
1/30/2016

Some paths you follow paved and  wide
Where you may move with ease
To deviate from left to right
Much doing as you please

Negotiating...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 2/3/2019

Don't say - such a world, crazy world, 
Don't say - you'll only waste your tears, don't cry, 
Be happy, while...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 1/03/2019

Guardian angels are the dawn and the night, every day, 
They're invisible, who does not want to see; 
They're even inside...

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Translated by Przemyslaw Musialowski 3/10/2019

Because there is no such magic, colors and people
for whom beauty is every day mixed in this dose, 
properly measured, to...

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