Long Backpacking Poems
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The Cascade Adventures - Part 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. Been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals, having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald pine trees,...
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Categories:
backpacking, adventure, friend, mountains, nature, snow,
Form:
Haibun
Cascade Adventures --- Pt 1It's been four years since I've seen so much as an insignificant mountain creek. I've been overburdened with comfort, now frantic with nature withdrawals and having to settle for photos found on Google Images: emerald...
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Categories:
backpacking, adventure, beauty, childhood, confidence, fun, mountains, nature,
Form:
Haibun
Biography Mark Hurlin SheltonMark Hurlin Shelton is a Poet from Cape Town South Africa, born in October 1967. He was raised by his grandparents in Three Anchor Bay, near Sea Point, where he attended his first schools: Ellerton...
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Categories:
backpacking,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hello and Goodbye CocoHELLO AND GOODBYE COCO
I wanted a brown Labrador, blonde and black ,
I love them all
But I had made up my mind, anxiously I sat waiting for a call,
From the breeder, the phone rang ,
They had...
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Categories:
backpacking, death, dog, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Making HayMake hay while the sun shines.
I grew up as a closeted polypathic nature-mystic
on a marginal, at best, family farm
in Michigan.
This farm was my embryonic home,
an extension of my vastly loved and nurturing Mother,
more than my...
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Categories:
backpacking, depression, family, farm, health, loss, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Chawanakee Rap With VideoGive them clear mountain lakes,
Kid-friendly swimming holes,
Rafts, canoes, and sailboats;
Dads and...
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Categories:
backpacking, america, father, fishing, native american, nature, rap,
Form:
Lyric
His Mother's LegendIt all started with two kids
Getting it for what they did
Scripted it as taking it one step further from the flirty pass
A teen camper and his lass
All of a sudden rich...
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Categories:
backpacking, anniversary, crazy, death, horror, mum, murder, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Pandr Not Public RelationsProspect to rejection in a matter of minutes
Always in a lifetime people rarely finish a sentence
We hop from line to line, relationship to relationship, family to family, job to job
Without adding the comma’s and...
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Categories:
backpacking, peoplepeople, life, people, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Ventana ThoughtsThese are all ruminations that arose from a recent backpacking trip in the Ventana Wilderness
Needing to bring spiritual realities
into the press of raw humanity,
amongst the most humble
the dreamer seems visionary.
Addiction is a mirror;
if I look...
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Categories:
backpacking, adventure, faith, forgiveness, imagination, introspection, peace, recovery
Form:
Free verse
Love, What An AdventureLove, what an adventure. © Theresa Rossouw
Have you ever thought of love as an adventure? No? Well it is! It is an expidition into the unknown, a lifelong backpacking, camping journey through valleys, over streams,...
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Categories:
backpacking, love, day, friendship, journey, love, mountains,
Form:
Narrative
Going On An ExpeditionI am going on an expedition I told my family sweet.
I might FaceTime, Zoom, Twitter or maybe tweet.
But I have to seek my fortune, so backpacking I will do.
I plan to go to Europe, Scotland,...
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Categories:
backpacking, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
BondsFriendships end when they are put to test
They don’t flex or bend weather old or best
Someone useful becomes useless
and selfish sides usually progress
True closeness isn’t found in many
never push...
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Categories:
backpacking, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
ScoutersGive them clear mountain lakes,
And kid-friendly swimming holes,
Rafts, rowboats, and canoes;
Dads and sons with fishing poles.
Give them clear night skies, ...
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Categories:
backpacking, nature, song, spiritual, stars, teenage, youth,
Form:
Lyric
When Summer Is GoneI searched 'ere the dawn, where could it have gone,
for now, it possesses me, as a mystery, till dawn met me.
I've no rhyme or reason that a loved entity goes awry,
having to comb with despair...
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Categories:
backpacking, appreciation, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Jews Harp - A Reflection On TurmoilI take my pain to where ragers rage and writhe
in their self-absorbed gluttony on all-winter days
their tea cups are only for them
interspersed with silence and solitude
the streets are buildings without them
who are the...
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Categories:
backpacking, inspirational, introspection, life, mental health, music, sound,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Gap Yahhh - Bless 'Em AllIf you'll indulge me, this short poem, based on George Formby's WW2 forces song, was inspired by my son;'s experiences of backpacking in India over the past month. In that time he met ONE other...
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Categories:
backpacking, adventure, father son, loneliness, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Quiet on SilhouetteFlorid banshees recoiled, neck and hankering sneer.
A succinctly exuberant suggestion when selective.
Came on, fell flat with laconic ornamentation.
A miniature jaunt, interment; glove comparted.
Pin-striped foxtails attuned tune maddening clairvoyants.
Precisely predisposed, wine-flavored latten tobaccos.
A wooden-tipped juxtaposition, stilling...
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Categories:
backpacking, dedication, devotion, endurance, extended metaphor, funny love,
Form:
Imagism
BackpackingMy body,
carries
the weight of the pack.
Walking,
and seeking to pray.
Vast space
opens,
my unlockable hope.
Silence,
keeps monsters at bay.
My breath,
eases
at the sight of the moon.
Echoing,
everything is okay.
Lupine flower
kisses,
my unloveable me.
Fields,
offer beds to lay.
My spirit,
strengthens
inside of my walls,
pushing,
them out of...
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Categories:
backpacking, abuse, beauty, hope, inspiration, life, paradise, world,
Form:
Free verse