Himalayan High
She found a job near Annapurna and when she trekked around a turn
It was like walking into a wall of beauty, awesome like a burn
It sometimes stopped her cold; this display words could not surpass:
Alpenglow on distant peaks, flags on a mountain pass.
Her ancestors lived by Polish rivers, but none were like Dudh
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Categories:
himalayan, adventure, inspirational, mountains, travel,
Form: Lyric
Himalayas
It is too many Peaks towering high
Snow-capped giants scraping the sky
Mighty Himalayas
Cold winds howl and icy blasts sigh
It is too treacherous
Those jagged peaks were so perilous
Glaciers groan and shift
Avalanches roar, and the danger is furious
It is too remote
Villages clinging to precipitous slopes
Narrow trails wind
?Few dare venture where only mountain folk cope
It is too unforgiving
Altitudes leave
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Categories:
himalayan, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Nuptials
Better to reach for something
and miss
than to hold back playing it safe
Destiny in the intention
and choice
hesitance falling from grace
Better to be adopted
by truth in flight
than the orphan of a lie
Where words and music marry as one
on the highest mountain
—you climb
(The New Room: January, 2024)
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Categories:
himalayan, marriage, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
Braised Himalayan Rabbit
There's an eatery here in my hometown I'd heard about,
That features exotic wild animal fare so I thought I'd check it out!
I perused the menu and here are a few examples of its bizarre cuisine:
Slow-broiled and marinated Indian elephant spleen;
Delectable bar-be-qued Texas style rib of rattlesnake;
Tender sixteen-ounce portions of grilled hippopotamus steak;
Choice butterflied pork tender-loin
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Categories:
himalayan, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Mount Rainier
I have seen you flash by
Amidst thick green foliage and swaying pines
Like a distant silver dream
On receding skyline
But was never satisfied
For a close encounter I craved
I did then go up
The Space Needle in Seattle
Hoping to have a clear view
Of your snow-clad balding pate
That thought profound thoughts
Against mortal blues of the empty sky
But, alas, you remained
Elusive
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Categories:
himalayan, america, mountains, philosophy, snow,
Form: Free verse
Tribute To An Indian Army General
Why am I hurt so sore, my folks
Why does my heart bleed
Why do I take it so personally
Why do I need to worry at all
Yesterday my General, his men
And the family were here in splendor
Today they are nowhere to be seen
Men in uniform were together for breakfast
But for lunch, they will never
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Categories:
himalayan, celebrity, emotions, eulogy, heartbreak,
Form: Ballad
Himalayan Bliss
waterfalls thunder down Himalayan peaks,
cuckoo calls pierce echoing mountains,
April displays stalls of flowers for customer bees,
pines wait, wearing overalls of pearl white snow,
river flows silent between walls of ancient rocks!
Something beautiful in 5 lines poetry contest
Charles Messina sponsored
written 07/Nov/2021
rhyme see bold highlighted words
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Categories:
himalayan, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
My View Point Himalayan
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Categories:
himalayan, adventure, crazy, deep,
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Monal
Imagine me the creature in broad daylight
with green metallic crest
as I flaunt a copper plumage wild and free
whilst feathering my nest
native of the Himalayan range I scale
the sun drenched mountain peaks
the zoom and swoop spirit I encapsulate
when skimming gold vein creaks
I dwell on red oak conifers or alpine
meads bound by rock-strewn ware
pale
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Categories:
himalayan, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Personification
Himalayan Clouds
The view is one of rare and ineffable beauty
as our plane passes over the Himalayas.
Mountains, enveloped in dense forests
embroidered with meandering rivers and streams
exude the soothing radiance of green.
The sky is a panoramic show of clouds
appearing in myriad forms:
layers of vapor surging forth;
fluffy balls floating around
or nestling against mountain peaks;
a goddess
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Categories:
himalayan, nature,
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Reputation
A sarcastic frown;
Labeled grumpy old feline;
Still beauty is found.
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Categories:
himalayan, animal, cat, nature,
Form: Haiku
Himalayan Trip-Trap-2
Himalayan Trip-Trap
They poured in, before the deluge
To surpass the natives in numbers
folks in their cribs -through-hearse stages,
trusting like kids, a burnished sky, blue-white,
a cocktail of the wrong and right,
and the mountains, inwardly grumbling ,
darkly forbidding…
Snaking it up to the high spots of
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Categories:
himalayan, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Bus Ride (Himalayan Mountains Nepal 2003)
As the bus rode
through the molting pine forest and
the crumbling ochre rock formations;
bits of colorful cellophane litter brought the only relief to the eye.
Inside, behind a profusion of people,
boxes, backpacks and assorted baggage
babies slept.
The bus creaked, shook and groaned
its way down the serpentine,
asphalt, mountain track.
Passengers chattered away in Indian, Nepalese, Danish and English,
abrasively punctuating
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Categories:
himalayan, adventure
Form: Free verse
Himalayan Sunset
The young men sat, planted under the overhang
like the pansies and geraniums that surrounded them in boxes,
as the rain pelted the terra-cotta terrace.
The mountain air was sharp with the taste of lightening.
Having bid farewell to the arched shard of a rainbow across the valley,
they sat tensely watching the celestial bombardment of Katmandu.
The lightening stoked the
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Categories:
himalayan, adventure, nature, nostalgia, sky,
Form: Free verse