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Mt Blanca
trademarked green and white
"Welcome to Colorful Colorado"
greets my eyes
Mt Blanca rises
smooth and elegant
as a wedding cake
draped with fondant
late April snow coated
majestic and proud
reaching up through the clouds
it strikes the home chord
in my heart deeper than
the tourist town I love
to never stay
not home
home-base
this is my home
I just don't live
anywhere anymore
but for a couple of months
to babysit a kitten and a pup
breath thin air on Pikes Peak
pan gold on Cripple Creek
celebrate my aunt's 90th
reunite with my cousins
hike some woods
energize my soul
to smile and be free
from strange longings
titilatations that don't
bridge the void...
dear home
you raised, educated
initiated
and launched me
into this frenzy
yearning and hurting
I return
kinder than my first love
and fairer than my last
your bosom
buries my sorrow
no shame
nor defeat
just wounds
deep enough
to be whole, again
home, again
preciosa Mt. Blanca
your wedding dress slips
down bare shoulders
dripping rivers and creeks
I'll stay with you
refreshed
and sustained
with fresh hope from within
this odyssey
love drifts in and out
never lost
no
she's sunning herself
up around the bend
gazing from the summit
of some forgotten trail
singing love songs
in some dive honky tonk
or pouring coffee
on route 66
the loveliest
sweet icing
on this delicious cake
on my lips
Pikes Peak
Cripple Creek
and you
Mt Blanca
Copyright ©
Steven Young
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