Why Your Cities Burn, Part V
......A jolt ran though the broken men,
like wraiths they rose, streamed for the door,
Gobayth waved them on until
nobody remained anymore.
They raced on towards the small hut
where all of the pick...
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Categories:
lodgepole, anger, conflict, dark, evil,
Form: Epic
Building Fence
...Sometimes we like to do something for the story
we’ll tell afterwards. Buy a ’58 Pontiac, climb
a mountain in the dark. Lamar tells dirty jokes
with class, knows how to wait awhile, bend
a syllab...
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Categories:
lodgepole, children, dark, death, men,
Form: Free verse
Catapulting Bears
...I once lived in high Montana
and I knew a man who live there,
went by the name Rodrigo,
known to most for his wild hair.
But Roddy didn’t grow it long
to try and impress some girl,
Roddy was ...
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Categories:
lodgepole, adventure, fun, humor, light,
Form: Narrative
Barn Dance
...Mustn't slow down
headed crosstown
To a barn made of lodgepole pine.
There's a showdown
at the hoedown
Where we dance with cows and swine....
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Categories:
lodgepole, adventure, animal, dance, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Dark Green Conifers
...another day in the woods. on Strawberry ridge
looking out over undulating green hills to
the next great wall of mountains. the last
morning clouds left from last night's storm
hanging in the vall...
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Categories:
lodgepole, day, green, inspiration, morning,
Form: Verse
Snake Creek
...Tired body aches. Long walk on starry night -
ears attuned for bear at creek, or cougar.
Nothing, not a doe.
But that afternoon
came upon a healthy young buck in a mea...
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Categories:
lodgepole, deep, drink, health, mountains,
Form: Verse
Kananaskis Is
...Kananaskis is
four-fifths a line of haiku
Kananaskis is
With spring’s sudden warmth
serial avalanches thunder
one triggers the next
Winter’s snow melting
laughing, leaping, running to
valley f...
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Categories:
lodgepole, memory,
Form: Haiku
Carpet of Color
...Stalky lupines add a purple fringe
to rugs beneath the lodgepole pine
In tall cool grass, where deer have been
the sun slides down between the limbs
The blue wild flax, on slender stems
will...
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Categories:
lodgepole, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme