Long Alpenglow Poems

Dawn's Embrace:
Adret: Dawn paints the face of giants,
Where sunlight warms and shadows dance.
Aiguille: Fingers pierce the azure sky,
A challenge whispered, sharp and high.

Earth's Whispers: 
Dome: Molten heart, now cold and grand,
A silent testament to time's...

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Sweet were the days though too few in number
When dread was lain over all tomorrows
By those whom upon the Rod of Asclepius swore
Sending him to seek solace
And pass by unseen
By the Final Fire in the...

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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:...

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And when i climbed the mound of grass
The sun set at a stop
Birds came swirling round
Outcrops in the light
Waves crashed under, instability;
Glass houses and rocks.

I think i got there.
I think i managed, because i could...

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Twin Palms

In a pensive mood I walked downhill
Reflecting on the disappearing years
Wondering how many more autumns left 
To enjoy the golden sun on his way home
Down the flaming hill-side.
I spread out my palm to catch...

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--
Unfamiliar 
Earth beneath my feet
Tranquility is vast
In my hand it escapes less readily than water 
Thoughts seem empty 
Sublime in flavor it hunts me down 
No teeth or mark to bear
These holdings seem comforting
Without them...

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Circadian Wobble

Circadian tripped through a trap door
Into amended reality of light and time
Where confusion missteps through the waltz of the hours,
And intervals of minutes
Glare at each other suddenly plucked out of place
Leaping into a space...

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UNRUFFLED 

Citadel on the rocky mountain stair
Stood gazing changing seasons in the air
Each passing year its bosom filled with tales of plenty shades
Of Knights, of Queens, of Foes, of Prince ,Of Comrades
The twilight swallowed into...

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The sea’s silver ripples gently undulate  
to call upon the coast and tease my feet.
I am but a child.  A threat, not a sign;
they let me play in the breeze and brine.
 
Waves...

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AS, the fog embrace the spectacular peaks,       
  It wraps the landscape gently with         
     ...

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November Artistry

Beneath the artist sculptor’s hand
November shapes a changing strand
Hidden beauty seen in the trees
Now revealed through fallen leaves
Twisted branches reach up so high
Artwork thrust in autumnal skies.

Sunshine hues glow in colors grand 
And paint...

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Churning listless feeble foaming waves
Pods of Humpback whales splash and dive
Reflecting sunset’s waning rays.
As curly crimson clouds arrive,
Far Edgecombe’s volcanic cone
Shines bright in alpenglow, alone.
Cloudy embers ease into eve,
Flushing Ferrari fires from day
As sun dips...

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All told!
Each day, I say,
Socially dormant, I may
Never flagrant, rather
Concealed, in essence
Quite quiescent per se
Until she appeared, as
An alcoholic version of aquapanela
Fragrant she is, isn't she?
La bruja from the sea
Can be. Can be.
The peaks of...

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Pecking its way out of the golden light
Songbirds arise non-feathered when they hatch
Feathered wings lift them high in upward flight
Crested larks lay colourful eggs that match 

Aeronautical flying birds in love
In the air, romancing like...

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winter wellspring

greyness dyes white clouds
 brittle gales howl ice and pant ~
  still meadows shiver

sequoia trees thirst
 fog mists bathe redwood giants ~
  rose petals gild snow
  
cold delirium
 in frenzies of...

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The alpenglow of sunset
Puts on its daily show
With changing of the colors
In undulating flow.

I watch in fascination
For each succeeding hue
And wonder if the angels
Are gazing at them too.

At sunset and at daybreak
God opens Heaven's door
And...

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