Long Petroglyphs Poems

Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself  spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting moose and cougars sharp incisors.
The...

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The air is thick with the weight of things unchosen,
paths untrodden, doors closed but never quite sealed.
A shadow clings to every decision,
the ghost of every road not taken,
whispering — what if, what if, what if.
We...

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Pretty like the crystalline canyon rocks -
   Fair like a deer wandering in the morn' -
With the Great Spirit as a faithful witness
   A baby girl named Red Feather was born...

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The bike was loaded and packed
The duffle bag strapped to the rack
The air was crisp when we started out at dawn
In the early morning hours we were gone 
Down the road with the wind on...

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Petroglyphs scattered
All over Hawaii
Carved on black volcanic rocks
Mysterious they are
Stoke human curiosity
Unendingly

Human and other forms
Numbers and writings
Carved by the island’s ancient natives
Long before the Whites entered the scene

No one can gauge
What they truly meant
We are...

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When I was skinned

I made a little list-

Call it (Something Here) :

It started out,

'I am getting older,

what should I do? '

Like go on the road,

Actually join the Legion or

Take vows for the ashram of Guru...

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Shining in the distance was a pinata shaped like round bubble
A skinny limber boy yelled to his friend, “I will hit it on the double!”
The friend was watching star lizard twist on mountain with his...

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McKee Springs petroglyphs
southeast flank of the Ulnta Mountains
twenty-two miles past Quarry Visitor Center
a long ways from Kansas City

take island park Road
it is impassible during wet or winter weather
call and ask before you attempt passage

do not...

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Such a beautiful mind, lone blossom in a sty
one to many times taunting the tempest's ledge
now the muse wears a crown of his ashes
caulked memories to fill the holes of our lives

Your fireflies have brightened...

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A design of
never-ending procreation
with genes that in the end
become petroglyphs on walls
or words in wastebaskets.

Rationalization's for meeting
the Unknown are
all the accumulations for survival
that become lost in a Great Reality:
I am dying.

No need to add cancer...

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The universe is an endless expanse,
it's preposterous to think Man's alone.
And as our technology advances,
we unearth their calling cards carved in stone.

Implying intelligent life came there;
ancient accomplishments are a marvel.
Either Man floated huge stones in...

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resounding echoes in
caves of timelessness
my hands caressing walls of rock 
never kissed by daylight
walls that speak loudly
of proud ancestors
immortalizing their
essence and
existence
painting
dwelling
hunting
sleeping
making tools
raising families
communicating 
telling stories
leaving messages
their legacy
much like us
in many ways
yet so very different ...

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