Manzanita Poems - Poems about Manzanita

...Unprison in my heart, Unlock words I struggle giving; Like the flutter of a lark, Wing what's coming from within me; Let my soul be set on fire, Like madrone, or manzanita, To promote the wor......

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...("Lone Pine", 2024, original pen and ink with encaustic mat) Manzanita Manzanita atop a slight rise forms a natural shrine The place a person could place an offering or say a prayer......

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...In the tangle of wood Delighted by the scent of earth rich warmth Of forest floor fusion The carpet of needles dance with the rhythm of your step And lead you to its tranquility Its crisp crac......

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...The Manzanita clacks in gelid breezes like the clap of clacking bones. Reddish painted branches reach their grey, bent shadows on stone from hulking, brewing drifting welkins. Peeli......

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...Hiker Dude Commander of the view of the curving earth the Piñon stands a-grip a forest of boulders, jagged giants, held in place by her, a part of her, at her bidding. The lone hiker dude, ......

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...The land sizzles. Brittle grass yellows the hills. Live oak draw sparse circles of shade. Spiky shrubs cling to the parched slopes: red stemmed manzanita, spiny scrub oak. Hot wind rustles t......

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...Although I hardly gave it a thought I didn't really doubt our miniature juniper, a bonsai, would survive our desert vacation. It likes the dry a......

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...The tan ropes are rattlesnakes that tie and untie themselves, clumps of spines untangled from earth, loops and S’s curling, like damaged ribs. My body is a tight cage that the snakes move a......

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...Hummingbird sits, rests Manzanita twig tight gripped Brilliant throat flashes......

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...A boulder looks down upon her children below; Varied rocks worn smooth by the creek’s swift flow. As the bright sun glistens on her lovely rust hue, She shares her delight of her little ones in vi......

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...I called and called. She wouldn’t come. Hiding in manzanita – had she become a wild thing? Search partner for eleven years. Now, tumors in her lungs. It was time. We’d dug the grave and sp......

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...Twas a little piece of heaven in a bigger spot of hell, Nestled in the bosom of the Sierra Nevadas. I wasn't sure just what planet I had just landed on, An alien invader in a strange mountain fold......

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...July 1983, another phone call after midnight, another long drive, your Shepherd-dog head in my lap. How many people got lost that summer! Late March 1986, by flashlight on dirt paths of The ......

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