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Ponderosa Poems - Poems about Ponderosa

Premium Member Lost Horizon
...Our plane went down in the mountain snow, but I was alive I walked on ice in the thin air, the only way to survive Then on a ledge, I saw that light, a valley pure and green With rivers rolling,......

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Categories: ponderosa, death, garden, perspective, political,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member I learn from the simplicity of nature
...As I walk around the cottage nestled at the river’s edge, I am greeted by the splendor of nature. The river gushes through the rocky bed as its roar echoes through the valley. I sit in awe watching ......

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Categories: ponderosa, appreciation, encouraging, inspiration, nature,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Serenading Andromeda
...He's strumming the guitar strings as if they weep, near a warm campfire on a cold December night. Sad chords of his song hold many secrets to keep. Through Ponderosa pines, whistling win......

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Categories: ponderosa, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Sky Island
...saguaros guardians of the sonora a battalion wafting in one hundred degree heat standing sentry on granite slopes vertical green etches in carmel cliffs literally--litter the foothills r......

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Categories: ponderosa, granddaughter, grandfather, nature,
Form: Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion
...A Trite Nihilistic Occasion This doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy) doth newt lack chutzpah, tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear, that ideally Fitzhugh like custom ma......

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Categories: ponderosa, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Hope
...The greatest blessings are usually the ones you've least expected. Hold on, Your actions will bear fruit one day. It may be when the last......

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Categories: ponderosa, appreciation, confidence, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Song From the Mountaintop
...The cry of an eagle floats across a distant peak, bear tracks visible in the Spring thawing snow Sunlight, spreading its dance upon the land, the Ponderosa Pine and Aspen in bloom The glacier......

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Categories: ponderosa, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboys Wow
...Late sixties cowboy films Bonanza, Rawhide And Cheyenne – I loved these series. Their theme songs come to mind ‘Wishing ‘My gal was by my side’( Rawhide,) Waiting at the end of my ride ‘Keep mo......

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Categories: ponderosa, home,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cowboy Church
...A cowboy don't need no plushy pew or a rantin' preacher, Pontificatin' from his pulpit aerie as his spiritual teacher! He gits his religion from (to him) a more gratifyin' source, Cherishin' God's......

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Categories: ponderosa, creation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Western Stars
...An old black and white movie took me back to my childhood when cowboys rode the range Major Adams and Flint McCullough leading the Wagon Train, and Hopalong's ten-gallon white hat rode the b......

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Categories: ponderosa, analogy, stars, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stone Bones
...Gray shrouds cover my way sets the tone for the day. Our silent sun sends rays running round corners slowly beams burn off - melting morning misty mind. As I tread these stone slabs rapt in ......

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Categories: ponderosa, body, city, feelings, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trees and Their Leaves
...If I may quote from Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees" a line: (His poem "Trees" is an all-time favorite verse of mine!) "I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree!" (I suppose there are ......

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Categories: ponderosa, humorous, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Bonanza Blues
..."Before I write another stanza I'll watch a re - run of Bonanza" Waiing to muse to strike I realax with an old western show soo. .. "Before I a re - run of Bonanza" Good old Hoss Cartwirth......

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Categories: ponderosa, addiction, repetition, , western,
Form: Chant Royal
Premium Member Walk In Woods
...Walk in woods enriching and serene Draws gratitude quieting garrulous mind Tranquil forests of breathtaking peaks Whisper softly building profound links Soaring trees of Oaks, Conifers and Po......

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Categories: ponderosa, environment, inspirational, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Lookouts Gone Down
...Born of smoke and fire glow In those blazing summers of long ago Little mountaintop pagodas Wooden cabs with cute cupolas Guardians of the grand Sequoia Douglas fir and ponderosa Where vigil ......

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Categories: ponderosa, lost,
Form: Alliteration

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