Long Mountain goat Poems

The noise aboard the motor boat reminds me that I was not alone
The high perspiration smell from the young couple sitting beside me
caused me to remember the green wood’s in Virginia and the squirrels
chasing each...

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The earth moans the earth and blood is soaked into dirt, the beatitude stands still and the mountain goat is grazing patiently on the hill. The birds are conducting Sunday morning mass and the leaders...

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Come and touch the mirror of my soul before I grow old; come and touch the mirror of my soul before the sun goes down and the evening gets cold.

I wake up this morning with...

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Ones who wage,
Ones who rage,
Ones who take,
Ones who pay,
Ones who craze,
Ones who rave,
Ones who crave…

Ones who fear,
Ones who breathe,
Ones who give,
Ones who need,
Ones who will,
Ones who weave…

Ones who plead,
Ones who beg,
Ones who beseech,
Ones who entreat,
Ones...

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It came this day
As I journeyed south
That I happened upon
An old man
Filling water bottles
From a small pond
Fed from water
That gushed from rocks
Half way up
A mountain

It must be special, I said
If you’re going to lug this...

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The Goat’s Tale... Puck Fair, Killorglin Co. Kerry, where in August
a wild mountain goat is crowned King Puck by a young girl who then becomes Queen of Puck. 

The Goat's Tale

"There's magic in the Coolroe-stream,...

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Refrain:

Beware ye netizens
of the internet troll
dare not feed it.
just sigh and past it scroll

I
There dwell within the internet
A vile creature with a rash wreath
Who spews their venom
From between their buck teeth

II

"Just ignore it!"
Can we get...

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You might say they were.
You could even say they
Should have been.
What you won't say is it
wasn't sporting or something
You'll soon forget.
Ladies and gentlemen
Promoters Royal presents
   " Championship Fallout"
Six cards, six trophies
 One knucklehead
Card.
Fighteen...

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Feets moving along I tread along this foreign domain full of bitterness and legions of many things and many eldritch terrifying but as I walk I tell you of the many things I observed which...

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I
Started
Up the path,
Not knowing what
I would find up there.
Passing the foothills, then
Stopping to catch my breath,
I gazed upon the mountain itself:
Barren, rugged wind-swept granite.
The pinnacle was somewhere beyond,
Hidden by a crown of feathery rain-clouds.
The path...

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Up high in Washington’s Cascade Mountains
Inside a log cabin surrounded by trees
Looking out the window next to my desk 
I’m mesmerized by the beauty I see

This window has a view of a small ridge
Where a...

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The pheasants soar at the slightest sound
The quail take cover close to the ground
The mourning dove coos away
Regardless that it’s hunting day.

The timid deer try to hide
Unless there is a car near by
Then they decide...

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A Better Production

Broad way’s wayward journey fares well this coming year 

The program a blank sheet but for turning tides to and fro

a logo free to script amend and cherish from the straight

and narrow swishing...

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Let’s make a meal out of this mountain I said to Clouth. 
With a giant goat gulp I had a boulder in my mouth.
Which I thought would be fun until things went south
And my teeth...

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Forever lies the snake, 
The animal with no legs.
Forever runs the hare,
Contenuosly hopping away.

Forever flys the bat
Innocent, yet feared.
Forever swims the swan 
Innocent, but adored.

Forever leaps the mountain goat,
Cunning to live at mountain summits.
Foever lives...

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I am looking for a new place to begin again, to start fresh. 
It seems I am always looking for such a place, 
even when I am okay with where I'm at now. 

Others tell...

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My muse went on vacation to the Eiffel Tower and more.
My private detectives snapped her photo in a Bolivia convenience store.
She travelled by alligator, flea, train, jet, and finally mountain goat.
I tried to catch up,...

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I began life as a gorilla – cumbersome and chunky.
I clunked my way into situations, abrasive and loud. 
I also misrepresented and misspoke. 
Rapidly became misunderstood and ostracized.
Life was not working...

So I transmogrified myself into...

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She looked far off to the west 
At the tiptop of the mountain range was snow
What was that black thing?

She got out her binoculars.
It was a mountain goat!
She put the binoculars down and reached her...

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	Francine Roberts
Contest Name	
a Couplet Morning 

Sometimes

Come on eyeballs open up ,
Time for breakfast, weetbix yup,

Spring up like a young mountain goat,
Back to bed id like to float,

Sleepy tired, but here I am,
Does you want some...

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A gift is something you make with your hands.
A bouquet of flowers, shells from the sand.
Helping our elders in their time of need.
Is truly a wondrous gift indeed.

Quality time in a park or near a...

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