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The Retreat:  Part 9

Coming Down The Hill

We were warned
That the high upon high
May not hold or be well-received
By the mere mortals below
Yet Cliff's Band...

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My mind is moving and brewing towards improving/
The heart finds pathways stewing me to be nurturing/
Lives in this part bind fast ways of learning/
Strife in...

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Soon I shall retreat to the mountains up north
To my home in those West Virginia hills,
Where songs of the mountaineers call me forth
I can hear...

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beyond the thickets
past the clearings
virgin trails 
cool
as licks of ice
his retreat...
yet awaits him...

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HURRICANE SALLY, 9/16/20


With an unprecedented surge
She has taken my name
And is raging her way across the Gulf,
In all manner of alarming the population:
To stir, to...

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When the weather’s as hot as a marshmallow roast
Or the orangey wires that turn bread into toast
Then the person who will be complaining the most
Is...

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Winter’s Retreat
Snuggling in our cozy home
Watching snowflakes fly
Crystals making shapes on trees
Stars blink in the sky

Fireplace is drumming
Light is throwing sparks
Candlesticks are lighting
Roadways in the...

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Mother! Only a few, few days remain.
Worry not, I will return, return again
Like birds that in their nests do enter
Tearing the torturous traps of hunter.

I...

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A cold and wet morning broke in the dreary month of November 
Water glistening on the ground, a gift from the English weather
With such a...

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Once the beach was my favorite place, 
but now the mountains, I make my escape.
The cool crisp air in early Fall,
this is Heaven, and my...

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