The Life of an AdventurerA thousand ships through the dark nights sail,
to mysterious lands and adventurous trails.
With a thirst for life, I cannot rest,
when one is finished, there comes another quest.
I travel many paths into the unknown,
with each path completed, I know I’ve grown.
Though dangers lurk at most every turn,
I sense I’m protected; I have no concern.
I try new...
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Categories:
adventure, life, mountains, nature,
Form: Sonnet
The Never greens
Grandma worked for the salvation army, sorting clothes.
she was part of a class called the working poor.
On occasion she'd take us shopping downtown
this was long before downtown went crazy.
She would buy brother and I a toy-maybe a treat.
Did I mention that was before downtown went crazy.
Today it isn't safe for anybody,
and crazy is spreading...
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Categories:
city, mountains, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Strength Does Not Always RoarFragility is quite a strength
just as the crucial bumblebees’ breath
Perhaps not only titularly
gentleness is stronger than severity . . .
Channeling Emily Dickinson : To be a feather in a holocaust
– hope, sewn in the soul, sings the song needed most
A minor thought on regeneration : To regrow the leg the mantis lost
– a marvel on...
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Categories:
art, beauty, hope, mountains,
Form: Alliteration
Whispers of a Summer TrailWe hike the trails where emerald silence grows,
The forest hums beneath the morning light,
The mountain breathes in rhythms nature knows.
The beach wind plays with gulls in seaward flight,
We splash through waves, our footprints wash away,
The forest hums beneath the morning light.
By lakes so still they mirror skies all day,...
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Categories:
mountains, summer,
Form: Terzanelle
The Misty Mountains
oh, the mist on mountains
rising to meet the clouds
swirling like ocean waves
land shrouded in a veil . ..
secrets of plumes misty
that the morn' will reveal...
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Categories:
mountains,
Form: Free verse
Layer cake of timeTouching time, towering, vast
Time stands high in grand relief.
Layered stories trace the past,
Etched in stone, stark and brief
As I wander through a layered cake of time.
Guarding the desert, towers of stone,
Stand watch from a tilted throne;
Cracks run deep, through petroglyph grand,
Relics left by human hand.
sentinels of the desert
Watch me wander this layered cake of...
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Categories:
earth, metaphor, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Muskerry SpringAt Lough Allua, along the waterfront
One observes a turning of the tide
From river stones, which stay blunt
Are nature’s creatures, who needn’t hide
A little toad searches for anew
Commencing a journey made by few
Its passage, grows so weary
Following the gravel track
On its way to Ballingeary
High ditches cloak edges of the roads
Serving to both sides, a useful shield
Tender...
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Categories:
mountains, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Volcanic Eruption Of The Soul
Words both good or bad are very powerful,
bad words said are like a volcanic eruption to the soul.
Why do family and friends hurt each other,
do they not understand what it does to the other person ~
volcanic eruption of the soul takes place.
These painful words and actions are like hot lava,
hot lava running out from ones...
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Categories:
mountains, family, friend, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The Ancient OnesI felt the earth moving under my roots.
Very same feeling deep down as it was -
five thousand years ago when Flame Mountain
started murmuring and belching before.
It turned its anger on all of us
spewing a fire river of scorching lava
burning the brush to ash, darkening
all living things it touched in its flow.
They call me "Methuselah The...
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Categories:
character, fire, mountains, myth,
Form: Free verse
Hospitals and mountainsEverything leads up to this
adds up to this position
where you think you'll be alone
forever but fairly soon if not exactly
next week you will meet someone
in a park or stuck in traffic
They will set your flesh alight
slowly much too slowly and it
will seem like bad behaviour
you will feel as if
as if you are harbouring an infection
You...
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Categories:
destiny, future, lonely, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Cold Deathwinter came early
it was freezing in the mountains
no shelter meant death
...
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Categories:
mountains, death, nature, snow, storm,
Form: Senryu
Categories:
mountains, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku
Valley’s Echo Singular Song"In the echo of silence, the whispers of the Divine are heard." By Rumi
I entered the winding path into the captivating vale
Surrounded by ice-capped mountains and ancient trees
Firs, larches, redwoods, spruce, and ash, all grand
I shouted in glee: “I’m here!” All around some Echo replied.
A repetitive Echo, always vibrating and mesmerising.
What a singular sound...
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Categories:
bird, mountains, river,
Form: Imagism
Homogeneous
I wonder where, oh boulders and sand,
Your spirit or heart truly stands.
To you, of Stone with worn heart in your chest
Surly you were once like the rest.
Once A boulder perfect and formed,
From the day you fell from mountain top, born.
Down the slope you came and lay,
To rest near a peaceful lake one day.
And...
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Categories:
mountains, beach, growth, hope, imagery,
Form: Other
In the thin air of my thoughts, where obstacles become mountains of time and memoriesIn the thin air of my thoughts, where obstacles become mountains of time and memories,
Every hurdle jumped seems to break my bones, like branches under the weight of the wind,
Every daily fallen tear turns into silent sighs in the nights of solitude,
Every sin committed haunts my soul like shadows dancing in the moonlight,
And every last...
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Categories:
mountains, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Mountains Poems
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