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Premium Member Confessing Outside Preferences
I am much more likely to feel like a respectful,
trusting family member
than an entitled warrior,
while outside "property improvements"
rather than inside anthropocentric habitats.

Sometimes
even as I approach my favorite sanctuary,
an AllSouls Unitarian-Universalist built structure,
I feel more sacred...

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Categories: john muir, community, earth, environment, humanity, integrity, senses, trust,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Muir Words
Labels that lead to hate…will only pain impart…
they will never bring us together…only push us further and further apart. 

When we are consumed by the labels we place on one another it becomes more difficult…more...

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© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: john muir, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tissiack's Tears
Tissiack’s Tears
“[F]or I was absorbed in the great Tissiack [Half Dome]-- I have gazed on Tissiack a thousand times -- in days of solemn storms, and when her form shone divine with the jewelry of...

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Categories: john muir, age, nature, philosophy,
Form: Blank verse
Captivating Woods
"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks."
                       ...

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Categories: john muir, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Tatterdemalion Kite
“When we contemplate the globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an...

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Categories: john muir, adventure,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Listen To the Call Up On High
During these Covid-19 days so sad
when an walking trip is not on cue
so missing in one's fondest memories
a trip on high seems so long overdue

My own favourite place to climb
is in the English Lakes so...

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Categories: john muir, america, life, mountains,
Form: Rhyme
And Into the Forest I Go
AND INTO THE FOREST I GO, TO LOSE MY MIND AND FIND MY SOUL…
John Muir 


A cool forest trail beckons and begs
Come, stretch your tired legs

     Feel the cool descend upon...

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Categories: john muir, appreciation, nature, peace, tree,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Mind and Soul Exchange
The forest is a wonderful place
so free among the open space
loads of trees with wide branches
let imagination show their every face

Let yourself go completely wild
give your every thought away in mind
making the intellect so very...

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Categories: john muir, happiness, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
The Mountains Are Calling
From pine-scented forests, past boulders and streams,
To clear lakes encircled by murals and dreams
Where bright clouds emblazon a warm azure sky,
A trail through the mountains is one I must try.

When bluebells stop blooming and nighttime...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: john muir, america, beautiful, inspiration, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Forest Soul Cleanse
“And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul.” - John Muir



The forest is a calm spiritual place,
a balsam scented and serene space.
Rabbits hide in mossy dens,
with fresh mushroom gems.
Magical!
Cleanse.
Fanciful,
trees,...

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Categories: john muir, appreciation, introspection, journey, nature,
Form: Rhyme
In the Valley of Yosemite
IN THE VALLEY OF YOSEMITE

Today, as I took a walk through,
The valley of Yosemite, such
A beauty that lies within 
The rocks, trails, and the falls

There is a place where
Clear blue sky's embrace
Where the trees are...

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Categories: john muir, beautiful, nature,
Form: I do not know?
The Ballad of John Muir Woods
The Ballad of John Muir Woods

	
	I squint at the splendid morning sun	 
	golden filtered bright rays conveyed.	
	Speaking they say, sit, little one		 
	rest a spell in our noble shade.

	I squint at this forest of titans
	sitting,...

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Categories: john muir, earth, green, love, nature, sea, tree,
Form: Ballad
I Love Ry Cooder and Tom Waits and John Muir
Tom Waits sang, And I hope I don't fall in love with you.
But I did, fall in love with the land. I fell in love with Warren Zevon
and the idea of telling something about who...

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Categories: john muir, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet
I'M Not Like You John Muir
I'm not like you John Muir:
I haven't fell into the deepest well;
I haven't swam through a solid stream;
And I haven't felt a gushing geyser's steam--
I've only been forever locked in this cell.

I'm not like you...

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Categories: john muir, adventure, angst, life, nature, sad,
Form: Bio
Premium Member A High Calling
A high calling indeed
to protect the most vulnerable
in nature and mankind
.....Excerpts from Cherokee Proverbs, Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir



a prayer...

Oh God, Father of all that is good
Shine Your light upon our vagrant souls
Fill our thoughts...

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Categories: john muir, devotion
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things