Water Mountains Poems

Q:  Who actually begins the Gog and Magog war in Ezekiel 38:1-3

A:  The word of the Lord came to me. "Son of Man,...

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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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Chinese translations Li Bai

These are my modern English translations of Chinese poems by Li Bai, who was also known as Li Po.



Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain
by...

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Barney and Bill walked up a hill
With buckets they needed to fill
The well had gone dry
They thought they might die
Until they discovered the still

They both...

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There is water under the mountains,
A stream hidden in the dark.
Misty or perhaps scorchingly dry
But there lives a stream.

There is a fossil under the mountains,
A...

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Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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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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Wild lavender
Swaying
Vertigo
From being rooted
On the mountain's tip  

Mild dark thunder
Greying
Approaching
The lavender
Near the mountain's tip

Tired lavender
Staying
Serenity
As the storm is muted
Passed the mountain's tip
  
Water...

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The ooze of earth and water, rivulets of mud,
Moves slowly, then faster, as rain pushes its mass.
Both water and earth mix in this massive great...

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I see the green of the desert
That overcomes the brown 
Clinging to ground and water

And with gentle affection
It might reveal some color
Like a yellow persuasion....

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Written: August 18, 2023
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whispers of the waves
beneath the mountain's embrace
eternal serenade   

once more I hear the
everlasting sea breathing
beneath the mountain's fragrant...

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One
Bread 
Was scattered 
Deep in the hilltops 
And came in your hands as one soul 
So the church is gathered from each corner of the...

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Summertimes sunshine, melts alpines snowline ~  waters ice cold, crystalline.

              ...

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A day in Alaska is like no other,
breath taking landscape
Snow topped mountains where eagles live,
bears and moose roam free.
A Sitka sunset is magical,
as the blue...

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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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