In the Roaring
In the roaring
White pounding cascade
I feel the love
It flows over me, with me, through me
It is me
Wordsworth's "transparent eyeball" *
Like the bare roots of ancient trees that
cover the trail like cobble stones I'm
Integral--I belong
When the bracing water embraces me
I don't shudder--I stroke it gently
Glide out into it's energy
Feel revived, renewed, invigorated
Refreshment not known
Since
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Categories:
hikers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Warning To Hikers
Please stay on path
Signs we hath posted
Our wrath on violators!
written January 19, 2022
[modified syllable count]
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Categories:
hikers, appreciation, rights,
Form: Than-Bauk
Halloween Hitch Hikers
Hitch hiking ghosts with a hue of blue
Were picked up on a Sunday in 1952
The driver was my dad, name of Lou
Who enjoyed their company more than they knew.
I heard the story growing up each year
On Halloween, for my daddy had no fear
That anyone else would call him a liar.
Apparently it happened with a flat
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Categories:
hikers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Hitch Hikers On Me
Now let me see
My Mom told me not to ride that boar hog
But as you will see my brothers and me
Didn't listen to Mommy
We got on this big old hog and rode him when he got tired he would run
for the waller and we would holler
Sometimes we could get off in time before he
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Categories:
hikers, adventure, animal, childhood, insect,
Form: Prose
Hikers
we're mill
don't sit still
no jill pill
we climb hills
no matter how tall
we make that wall
also we're biker
they call
us
HIKERS
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Categories:
hikers, adventure, courage,
Form: Light Verse
Hitch Hikers
Fifteen years old,friday starts the weekend
Kev and myself finished school,decieving our perants
we were sleeping elsewhere,
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Categories:
hikers, adventure, home, car, home,
Form: Free verse
Hikers
the carry back pack
thats stack
with there picks nd rack
bags for a shack
food sack
some also biker
those
HIKERS
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Categories:
hikers, history,
Form: Light Verse
Three Hikers
They came home crying tears of joy,
Hugging their parents and loved ones,
And showing off an engagement ring as they
Smiled wide into the snapping cameras
They reluctantly gave interviews about their ordeal,
Their story of survival,
Choosing their words carefully, deliberately,
to maintain political correctness
And delicate diplomacy:
All they wanted to see was the Ahmed Awa waterfall,
Nothing more, but somehow
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Categories:
hikers, political, home, home, political,
Form: Free verse
Hikers
they like the top
some hop
a lot
from a back pack
thats fill with stacks
and rack
some or bikers
they are
BIKERS
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Categories:
hikers, adventure,
Form: Light Verse