Long Skied Poems

EFFUSED ENCOUNTER


Neither a dream nor a trick, I beguiled--
I reach the sky enameled with golden smile.
To hurdle bumps and curves, I continue to pedal
this steadfast being yearn to step on a pedestal,
I found at the...

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(Approaching Ingalls Peak, 2012, original oil)

Rites of Passage

Forty-six years ago,
my first winter in the Pacific NW
my first winter break at college,
I headed out to climb Mt Stuart in the North Cascades 
in the company of...

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Across the ridges, flats and ranges, in print, on radio and stages,
you may hear this tale wherever you may go.
Sometimes a stranger may confide, about that famous ride,
in the rodeo at Mildura's annual show.

For a...

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You were my parent,
Even if I haven’t seen you for years,
It may seem I don’t care,
But you should know in the future it will be quite clear that I do.

When you were taken away,
All I...

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Let’s go skiing ! Said my wife 
It gives you such a thrill
So off we flew to Canada 
To face the bitter chill

We took a bus from Calgary
To Banff’s National park
Found our hotel, went to...

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I have seen men carved from stone
rising above the Black Hills,
I’ve seen ancient trees born back when
Ceaser still worked his will,
felt a thundering water pound down,
and from four Great Lakes drain,
I have known the prairie...

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A Hard Beginning

The cough continues. 
My head... aches, 
but there are needles in my eyes, 
that will not stop poking my lids. 
Everything hurts today, 
that did not hurt yesterday. 
Today all things that hurt...

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The Colours of Happy

I am the painter of happy
Traveling along life's dark streets
listening for the beat
Feeling hidden colors with my feet

I see the beauty 
beyond the dark
I'm floating within this concrete park
leaving my mark
Playing tag...

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My past sits on a shelf, in pictures, books and letters
Occasionally I take it down, to make the present better
Those youthful days back at home, when life was in full bloom
Taken for granted they slipped...

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I like my winters "neat" ...

But they all come "on the rocks" here
So a day will come when palms will dominate my view
Instead of evergreen trees and pine cones and juniper bushes
(Though I do love...

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One starry skied night, I lay in the grass
Reflecting on relationships, people of years past
And then I see her: walking down heaven's steps
The memories rushed back, as if she never left
My eyes tear up, and...

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It was a ways back in the late nineties,
I was ski racing in New York, upstate,
atop a long and winding Super G,
the fastest discipline in which I partake.

I’d made state championships three times,
but had never...

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He helped himself up to the wind's foremost blow
On a hillock where the moon searched his impecunious pockets,
Waking a flood in his eyes like swelled teats.
He opened wide to receive the Lady, this Endymion cheats,
No...

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Wally Weasel Goes Skiing

Wally still loves painting, but he’s now discovered sports.
He made his reservations at a faraway resort.
He’s never skied but has a book with lessons showing how.
After reading it two times plus one,...

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The forever tourist
 
 He woke up at two o´clock in the morning
he had to take a train to the main city at four
his wife said the train didn´t run on Saturdays or Sundays
he ignored...

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For your Himalayan Singing Bowl retreat stood neat.
For you gifted five eager souls, sheer enjoyable flight -
For your expense paid treat gave me first time visit,
And I, on friendly shores of my mother's birth, rejoiced.
Our...

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I’ve watched him whither. He came to me a decade ago, stooped in pain. The fine-boned features of his face and the clarity of his Irish skin still holding on to a genetic predisposition to...

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Razzmatazz. A long lost song
From a long lost band, Pulp
Freed from your Orange Juice,
Hailing from Scotland, who’s final king
Was Forest Whittaker, trophy winner
The only one Cleveland’s ever seen (but apparently, it rocks)
With its gray skied...

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Good memories with my young children,
We were on Christmas holiday together.

We skied the mountain together,
What a good time we had.

These were the early days of skiing,
We were all dressed for the weather.

With our ski clothes...

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The day, now clearer-skied and cloudy strips cruise
 in shades of deep dark sapphire and Aegean blues
  with sweeter shades of cerulean azure oceanic hues; 
stretching out in yawns across the western horizon
 as...

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Green of the poison can invade deep
unnerve you and eat innards like creep
it sinks in slow from the injectible
which sinks in sharp like a stab.

Laugh,demur,smile,eyes roll
hand in hand and enthrall
sweet words and ready laugh
on all...

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        Seven second serendipitous develop
        Macro piano keys maestro, Lord
        Ceiling laden with citrus...

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The countryside looked like a Christmas postcard,
Spruces were covered with snowflakes .

Looked like God's painting,
There were tracks in the snow where friends had walked.

Skiers ascended the mountain and skied down swiftly,
Skateboarders came and went,

You admired...

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Spring Love 

The majesty of pine trees heavy laden with snow 
Sparkle in dawn's dappled light with a glistening glow.
Monumental mountaintops survey valleys down below.
Dwelling in the snow's melt enchanted rippling rivers flow.
Spring's early footsteps...

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The Planet *

Twinkle twinkle little planet
bluely liquid, gas and granite
seen below skied hemisphere
for my wonderment to revere

Enlightenment makes me scintillate
neurons spark to discriminate
I long to know, to understand
what makes it work since time began

When visions...

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