Mountain Goat Poems

If I was a Rocky Mountain Goat
I would wear a furry overcoat.
I would walk rocks
Ignore all clocks
And jump off cliffs onto river boats.

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Mountain Goat and Moose Tango - A Haiku
 
unfriendly mountain
shall and perfect, gray moose runs
at the perfect goat

4/7/19
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The noise aboard the motor boat reminds me that I was not alone
The high perspiration smell from the young couple sitting beside me
caused me to remember the green wood’s in Virginia and the squirrels
chasing each other up and down the...Read More

A Better Production

Broad way’s wayward journey fares well this coming year 

The program a blank sheet but for turning tides to and fro

a logo free to script amend and cherish from the straight

and narrow swishing crested waves yet full of...Read More

The Goat’s Tale... Puck Fair, Killorglin Co. Kerry, where in August
a wild mountain goat is crowned King Puck by a young girl who then becomes Queen of Puck. 

The Goat's Tale

"There's magic in the Coolroe-stream, or pucks
weave herb into the...Read More

Stark against the skyline
On a pinnacle he stands,
Tranquility and peace divine,
In the domain he commands.

Leaping and bounding ever free,
And humbly we try to follow,
When approached he shies timidly,
And runs to the rest in the hollow.

Always proving his superiority
While moving so...Read More

A gift is something you make with your hands.
A bouquet of flowers, shells from the sand.
Helping our elders in their time of need.
Is truly a wondrous gift indeed.

Quality time in a park or near a stream.
A gift is anything you...Read More

Refrain:

Beware ye netizens
of the internet troll
dare not feed it.
just sigh and past it scroll

I
There dwell within the internet
A vile creature with a rash wreath
Who spews their venom
From between their buck teeth

II

"Just ignore it!"
Can we get a moderator before we're overran?
Drive...Read More

I
Started
Up the path,
Not knowing what
I would find up there.
Passing the foothills, then
Stopping to catch my breath,
I gazed upon the mountain itself:
Barren, rugged wind-swept granite.
The pinnacle was somewhere beyond,
Hidden by a crown of feathery rain-clouds.
The path weaved back and forth, mostly...Read More

After the civil war in temples
a wodden god
with broken nose, was walking
with a stick.

Half-way to home
he wanted to turn back
and meet his shadow
in the lake.

A mountain goat climbs
down the rocks to become
a martyr. Leaps into a dark
stream clinging to the...Read More

Up high in Washington’s Cascade Mountains
Inside a log cabin surrounded by trees
Looking out the window next to my desk 
I’m mesmerized by the beauty I see

This window has a view of a small ridge
Where a mountain goat can sometimes be...Read More

Ones who wage,
Ones who rage,
Ones who take,
Ones who pay,
Ones who craze,
Ones who rave,
Ones who crave…

Ones who fear,
Ones who breathe,
Ones who give,
Ones who need,
Ones who will,
Ones who weave…

Ones who plead,
Ones who beg,
Ones who beseech,
Ones who entreat,
Ones who appeal,
Ones who volunteer,
Ones who...Read More

Hearing the bleating of a newborn Mountain Goat 
Hooing of the Bear, watching him against the pine, scratching his coat
Helping the Eaglet, with an awk to its mother to bring back to the nest
Horrendous roar of the Catamont before he...Read More

so rear up like a young mountain goat,
head butt the horror okey doke,
rip the skull from offa him,
body slam him with a grin,
johnson says its orright,
its deathless time tonight...:(

re:
"The Reaper"  
Anthony Nutter


Don...Read More

	Francine Roberts
Contest Name	
a Couplet Morning 

Sometimes

Come on eyeballs open up ,
Time for breakfast, weetbix yup,

Spring up like a young mountain goat,
Back to bed id like to float,

Sleepy tired, but here I am,
Does you want some toast n jam,

9am me brain...Read More

Depression 

Sit on the porch an hold his hand, 
tell him he has to be the man,
 don't let bitterness spoil the plan,
 your loving kindness will help you maam ... 

the ole dog sits in the background,
an your spirit...Read More

Forever lies the snake, 
The animal with no legs.
Forever runs the hare,
Contenuosly hopping away.

Forever flys the bat
Innocent, yet feared.
Forever swims the swan 
Innocent, but adored.

Forever leaps the mountain goat,
Cunning to live at mountain summits.
Foever lives the tortise, 
An old, beloved...Read More

The pheasants soar at the slightest sound
The quail take cover close to the ground
The mourning dove coos away
Regardless that it’s hunting day.

The timid deer try to hide
Unless there is a car near by
Then they decide to take a stand
To prove...Read More