Snow Mountains Poems

ODE TO ELEPHANT


Elephant Elephant 
enveloping essence of Earth !
             I hear an elevated...

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Snowmelt from atop
Create nature's aquarium
Seafoods thrive below....

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O I have yet seen a giant so great reveal its natural beauty, 
with pride above all surroundings it stands, 
constant but fairly moody.

Its eyes...

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In tertiary times, when two continents adrift
Titanically collided to tectonically uplift
The gasping ocean floor
Resurrected up once more
Left the water for the land;
Five miles high it...

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Even when there’s snow on the roof
I will have fire in the chimney
I will keep a warm hopeful heart
And a strong steady mind 
Determined despite...

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Upon the Rockies, where winter unfolds, 
A landscape transformed, in white it holds.
Snow-laden peaks, a majestic array it holds
Nature's masterpiece in cold ballet it folds,

Icy...

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skis on our shoulders
     slopes covered with fresh powder
          smiles on our...

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moon shining brightly down 
mountains covered with snow
many trees glistening...

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The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Up in the mountains
The winter brings freezing snow
  The animals move downward
...

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   O, noble eagle, spread your vast wings
     fly high over peaks gleaming with snow
   Wherever you...

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In the Mosquito Range of the Colorado Rockies,

Mt. Democrat rises 14,155 feet,

I summited in winter, amidst, fog, wind, and sleet

Waist-deep snow in some places, a...

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On the 1st Day of Christmas I trekked in the Sikkim high mountains
along the tortuous but exhilarating track
of the heavenly Himalaya.

On the 2nd Day of...

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Knot For Thee

. for public domain


Everywhere I from and go,
o'er luscious prairie and mountain snow,
stretched low and high the hungry hands,
and gobbled up the Promised...

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October is one of those months that begin to transition and change to prepare for winter.

As our days begin to shorten, this tenth month brings...

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