I can't remember
...I don't remember when I looked up and heard a seagull's cries
I don't remember the line of gold of my first sunrise
I don't remember the time at Fire Island when Mom carried me to the sea
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Categories:
matterhorn, childhood, forgiveness, identity, memory,
Form: Lyric
Only One True Mattahorn
...Matterhorn means mountain peak of the meadows
In a pyramidal shape, she has four faces
Her south face is in Valtourmenche Valley, Italy.
North, west and east faces are claimed by Switzerland.
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Categories:
matterhorn, travel,
Form: Free verse
Toblerone
...Triangle of Swissness
On a rage for softness
Bern of mythical sweetness
Legend of the wilderness
Echoes of milk and honey
Remnants of caramel chimney
One Matterhorn mountain peak
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Categories:
matterhorn, chocolate,
Form: Acrostic
Toi Et Moi
...Follow me and together we'll go
Over the mountains, to romance the snow
Ride a gondola lift to the great Matterhorn
Alsace-Lorraine to Château de Landskron
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Categories:
matterhorn, for her, french, i
Form: Rhyme
Mt Shasta
...My Everest, my Matterhorn, my Sinai
Towers in the distance above the land
Snowy crown soft white against the sky
How gracefully she reaches out her hand
And touches me, and I could nearly cry
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Categories:
matterhorn, mountains, nature,
Form: Acrostic
My Dream Vacation
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Wish to wake up surrounded by the snow-capped Alps
Sipping tea in the quiet, quaint villages of Switzerland
Watching the glittering ripples of sapphire blue lakes
Staying in picturesque lake...
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Categories:
matterhorn, dream, vacation,
Form: Imagism
The View From Thirty-Six Thousand Feet Up
...The pilot formally announced
the desired cruising height was reached.
At three hundred and forty knots
the plane flew like a cruise missile.
As I peered out of my window
above cotton cumulus ...
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Categories:
matterhorn, allusion, discrimination, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pink Unicorn From Candy Corn
...Pink unicorn who is shaved and shorn
Was born in the land of yellow candy corn.
She adorns herself with purple ribbons proudly worn.
A torn meniscus and ACL makes her blue and forlorn.
Peach morn...
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Categories:
matterhorn, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Dormant
...Thunderous Matterhorn of a right hammer, reduced to a glaciered mound, lifeless by the side.
Champion crew creating a clever cloak, covering countenance. Once it drapes the eyes, the enemy can’t se...
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Categories:
matterhorn, angst, anxiety, bereavement, depression,
Form: Free verse
The Bucket List
...The Bucket List
Imagine if you will, a scene unlike any other,
Sipping Espresso daybreak, foothills of snow that smother.
Pavement Café in Zermatt, first patron of the morn’
Eyes glazed in wond...
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Categories:
matterhorn, holiday, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Derelict Belt
...On my way down to New Jersey
to take care of business there,
I pulled off and up to this place,
where I got out to stand and stare.
This was the Kutchingkord Hotel,
the heart of the old Borst ...
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Categories:
matterhorn, appreciation, farewell, history, remember,
Form: Rhyme
Journeying Through Mountains
...Majestically they've stood since time had its start
rising on a cartographer's global elevational chart
Mountain ranges, wondrous works of God's creation
that eyes have beheld for centuries wi...
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Categories:
matterhorn, mountains, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Tale of Dick's Turbin
...Eyes glib from tree and nominous tree
Go barking with intent.
To foe itself in one-two-three
And leaphing as it went.
In black from shadow nail to nut
Bad rifle cock in hand.
Dick’s Turbin an...
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Categories:
matterhorn, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
The Mountain
...The Mountain
The Mountain, it could be the Matterhorn, the Alps
Or any other large mountain around the World
But not all mountains need to be physically climbed
As a mountain can resemble a large ...
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Categories:
matterhorn, life,
Form: Narrative