Long Sequoias Poems

~Under the Same Moon~

P.D.
Our days are different, living under the same moon
Down here in TEXAS, life carries a different tune
This world spins on its lovely axis
Listening to our Tex-Mex of our English lexis
We share a...

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Some forests never fear the fury of March bending a tree,
their Redwoods and Giant Sequoias provide good shelter
from winds and storms that occasionally begin at sea;
in this woodland, the wood thrush and the blue warbler
have...

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She's sleeping now as I watch 
her; angelic, innocent—most 
importantly—happy.
How do I tell her? It's become a 
type of obsession.
How do I tell her? My nights are 
spent rearranging phrases; 
hoping for a turn of...

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For This Is The Story, An Old Poet Sought Not To Miss
 (Part One)

I've ate Eden's last apple, coveted Jason's* golden fleece
chained myself in caverns of darkness, begging no release
refused mighty crowns of power, fed...

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We are the saplings of the universe, grown from the dust of long-extinguished stars,
Branches of consciousness blooming in the cosmic garden of ephemeral existence.
The leaves of our thoughts rustle in the wind of time, whispering...

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Us humans are delusional, in believing that we are the most superior 
          species than the rest of Earth's inhabitants. We are absolutely wrong!


  ...

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The Routine

I woke today, teeth like ground gears.
In my dreams, I can fly far above the tear-soaked sequoias and
caked roots of all that grow, flying far away from their togetherness-
My waking, a cold mockery unveiled.

I...

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Veiled amongst massive granite rock formations of El Capitan and half dome
Lies picturesque valley exhibiting numerous majestic waterfalls’ grand splendor
Thunderous cascades of gushing cold water bouncing happily over rocks
Attract explorers from all around sphere making...

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Trees

Trees, trees, everywhere, and no one stops to think
What we may lose as all mankind nears a crucial brink. 
When oaks and elms and other trees just simply cease to be,
Less Oxygen will be sent...

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Fly birds, fly.
Flap your wings in unison. Long strides gliding on each other's whispering breaths.
Create whirlwinds so powerful as if blown from the lips of the almighty God.

Like an army of ships departing into the...

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shifting and swirling wind 
biting cold 
first light coming around the bend
illuminating each crevice and every fold 

the kind of silence that makes a sound
lone bird on a branch
snow drifts by the pound 
snow falling...

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Verd meadow yon shadowed sequoias,
Patterns has lent the scope neath the petals,
Pixies wake on the tips of true choices,

Heightens an ochered sun amidst voices,
Looms about a faint trace of pink mettles,
Verd meadow yon shadowed sequoias,

Tattered...

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I started off on this sequoia trail rather reluctantly
Not realizing how much these trees would give to me 
There was a freshness to the air I cannot describe,
I was not with my people, no one...

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I walk on water. . . 
I feel the coolness of the
Rolling waves splash
Beneath my feet.
I watch the sun sprinkle
Diamonds across the sea.
I float above the clouds
And feel the radiant warmth
Of the sun bless my...

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"YOU CAN'T QUESTION HER"


you can't question her: the crow caws
when she wakes to fight the world.
she's vulnerable with a heart wrapped
 
in barbed wire,
walk in her country shoes,
you'll see the wear and tear is her...

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Morning On The Mountain

Glowing cathedral spires of the gold mountain range
Rising with the sun above the reflective ice lake
Between deep green sequoias tops
Passed, and down below the pine needled path
Stretching on thin rust colored winding...

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Winter


Black cloud enshroud blue horizon while migrating birds tweet their last goodbye

Arctic winds weigh down bare naked branches watching blinding storms streak by

Above forsaken lodge tower sequoias like sentinels safeguarding an empty citadel

Hungry bison scrapes...

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Birds chortle below the simple timber line
Warm winds can not protect them now
California is no place to be in the middle of a quake 
Redwoods and sequoias sway, begin to understand
Collapse in on themselves on...

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God equipped you to be that beacon in the thick of the storms-
For your light radiates from your soul at its appointed time.
The care in your eyes give peace to those in your presence-
The mighty...

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I thought trees one,
 time looked like ,
giant broccoli because-,
 of their leafs that shoot
from  their  trunk after 
reading Radical Mycol-
ology then I thought years ago when I was still mobile  I...

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May my words fall like crystal dew
upon the soft soil of your loving heart.
May it sprout the seeds of affection,
growing with this nourishment.
May your passionate flowers blossom,
roses, violets, innumerable variations
upon the fresh green pastures of...

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