Best Yosemite Poems

gentle flakes drift down
   to soften the valley floors
      while lacing the trees
     ...

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IN THE VALLEY OF YOSEMITE

Today, as I took a walk through,
The valley of Yosemite, such
A beauty that lies within 
The rocks, trails, and the falls

There...

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One of the best things about living in Yosemite, is the miles and miles of trails. I love to hike. Since I've been in Yosemite...

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Carved by the hand of God you are
              awesome, heavenly, take my...

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A glazed view, as through a glass that magnifies
Between the granite banded with blue and umber
Cruel paths of glacier, ancient swords of hunger
Deeply carved a...

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The year is 2025
I have come back to my past
To witness the Mayans
Who said Earth would not last

2012
Was the year they declared
That the planet we...

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Shadows of light and darkness
Contrasting images of El Capitan
Half Dome sliced by an ice age glacier

I met him that day in Yosemite
Touched by the unique...

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If I could be a cartoon character
Which one would I be
I thought about being Fred Flinstone
But he's too old-fashioned for me

And then there's maybe George...

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A waterfall cascades
From  Yosemite’s breast
In all its elegance
And rage…  floats spilling out
This pageantry of awe.

Enclosed by  red-stones
Swoosh of melody
Grants holy respite ,
From...

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Yosemite’s Ephemeral Autumn Falls

Bald giants of swift water smoothed pale granite
Mark deep clefts for tumbling summer snowmelt
Rush released from frozen streams once frostbit
Silver swells -...

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When I was younger i was taught to believe in god
Now i wonder if i misunderstood, Whether it was all a mirage
Baptized in holy water...

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Ethereal, fleeting, incandescent
I grasp loosely at the airiness
So vibrant on the escarpment
X-rays pass through bone and flesh
Leaving no mark
I hold emptiness

Where are the diamonds?
Filling my...

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Thick pea soup fog lingers in air
Coats the trees everywhere
Sun's presence covered behind clouds
The mood set is despair

Crickets chatter in surround sound
There must be hundreds...

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The darkness accepts the awakening of a new day over the eastern rim of the valley floor.  

The distant highlands sculpted by nature’s wind...

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CAMP 4

‘If I die, I die.’

The realness of those words
sent a shiver down my spine
as I listened to the climbers.
It was late autumn, 1969.
There was...

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