Rose Mountains Poems

Dawn's Embrace:
Adret: Dawn paints the face of giants,
Where sunlight warms and shadows dance.
Aiguille: Fingers pierce the azure sky,
A challenge whispered, sharp and high.

Earth's Whispers: 
Dome:...

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For 20 years, I lived outside El Paso, Texas, home of the Chihuahuan Desert and the Franklin Mountains. During my daily morning commute, I drove...

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Dawn rose behind the mountains,
bringing with her an aura of light.
There were shadowed reflections
of her fingers as they danced
across the bay's calm surface....

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The bear came limping down
With body singed and bloody paws 
Lay on the ground
And let out its final groan
Its spirit rose around 
The shoulder of...

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It was summer in the mountains,
Daisies, bees and poison ivy surrounding
The little creek where my feet swung down,
Swaying gently over the trickling water…
Betraying the heat...

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"Two doves in white flying, feathers glow beneath the morning's rainbow colors" 
--Charles Messina

Wet black diamond saw slicing rocks
Powdered stone slush drizzling, milky veins
Spidering over...

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My peaceful place beside this sapphire lake,
As reflections take on a deep dark blue,
Soft snow sprinkled peaks where my dreams awake
Of the distant mountains through...

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--Ashtray's Mistakes--


Prehistoric defibrillating battlegrounds. The memorial, obviously unpleasant.

Entrapped in the know how, detrimental reimbursement.

Sundried; like the corpse of a moon bridge, fading away.

Tinfoil hats do...

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Way back in the 1960s
in the Green Mountain state,
nearby the Mount Snow resort,
perched beside small Snow Lake,
was a peculiar formation
that you don’t see today,
locals called...

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Dawn scurries over mountains high
     and sleepy fields in heather hue.
She paints lemon-colored skies,
     and splashes rose-kissed...

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God surely fashioned the blushing rose,
exquisite velvet petals of red.
I'm sure it was God who deftly chose 
happy colors of wildflower beds.

God is the single...

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Thunder rolls above the peaks
Lightning racing in blinding streaks
Clouds hanging over canyon walls
Waiting, waiting for the rain to fall

Lightning explodes against the cliffs
Flashes of light...

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As I lie between the blades of green grass;
with a wave of your hand, you took me there.
a smile in your eyes, sunshine in your...

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Dusty rose and orange gold when daybreaks;
And burnished reds and mauve at setting sun.
The mountains in shades of beauty awakes;
And retires to the same when...

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When the chilly wind starts blowing from the North, 
                ...

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