60 miles from Cherokee
...I took my bike on Amtrak, got off at Charlottesville.
Climbed up to the Blue Ridge parkway, the first of many a hill.
I met a Canadian Carpenter as I got closer to N.C.
He was cycling alone; his w...
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Categories:
ridgeline, autumn, endurance, loss, mountains,
Form: Lyric
Sour Drinks
...She'll be the queen of my decrepit ridgeline,
Her crown, heavy with my wasted want.
Never knows best, a fault of design.
Her tensions a dagger, a cunning divine,
A soul-bleeder, god as a vaunt....
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Categories:
ridgeline, absence, childhood, identity, symbolism,
Form: Villanelle
He Died With A Smile, Part II
...The man shook and said, “They wanted some fun,
but the boy was small, he started to bleed.
Patrick threw him out back, said, ‘This one’s shot,
but we have others to see to our needs.’”
Dalton’s...
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Categories:
ridgeline, abuse, angel, children, dark,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Demon 'Punchers, Part Iii
...III.
He kept off the roads to avoid their eyes,
through scrub and dry grass, onwards he did ride,
skirting north of the ranch, behind a ridgeline,
until he stopped to see what he could find.
S...
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Categories:
ridgeline, conflict, corruption, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Strolling Through the Past
...It’s now a bird sanctuary,
and has been for some decades now,
the trail wanders through the forest,
past the rock walls of an old house.
The trail itself was once a road,
I can tell by the two...
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Categories:
ridgeline, absence, appreciation, farm, history,
Form: Rhyme
On the Trail
...Underneath the looming hemlocks,
the incline makes each step a strain,
up sandy earth and broken stone,
but I see sunlight up ahead.
Emerge upon a high ridgeline,
underfoot now is all bedrock,...
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Categories:
ridgeline, adventure, bird, fun, imagery,
Form: Blank verse
Breathtaking
...Begin your Diamond Head hike in the early hours of morning as it
Requires two full hours to climb to the top at an
Elevation of seven hundred sixty two feet from sea level.
After reaching the top ...
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Categories:
ridgeline, beautiful, mountains, places, ,
Form: Acrostic
Animals and Iron
...Cattle guard rattled teeth
Dummy locked gates swung open
Loose gravel wound roads
Descending into deep rutted
Belly washing mud paths
Bouncing and shaking
Halting and laughing
Long bending m...
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Categories:
ridgeline, nature, youth,
Form: Free verse
Remain
...Stillness in the night
Silhouettes of Zulu’s
Move along the ridgeline
Monkey’s howl
And men cry
The darkness has no friends
Evil specter of death
In the banana trees
Fruit bats on the wing
Sweating i...
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Categories:
ridgeline, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Ascension
...Crystal blue ice cold water
at the glaciers edge
As I traverse the ridgeline, climbing closer,
just one more little ledge
My path is wrought with obstacles,
many burdens in my way
I fo...
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Categories:
ridgeline, devotion, hope, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme