Scree Poems

Prior to intent

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Written: July 18, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker

Line of inquiry:
"heart sets up a vibration 
echoing as wordless intent
mind translates in symbols
flight of...

Old Men Walking To The Sea

...OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA


OLD MEN WALKING TO THE SEA
GOING DOWN HILL THREE BY THREE
FOAMING MIST AND DISTANT THUNDER
OCEANS DEEP AND FILLED WITH WONDER

PASSING GATE AND ANCIENT TREE
HEAR...

Tarn

...A mountain tarn,
a deep-water eye,
high and blackly gleaming.

A scramble down slippery scree
to look within,
then a tingling apprehension
of being too close
to an unbalanced footing,
one th...

Mindscapes

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A deep pit with a crumbling edge.
Far below,
is a muddy pool swarming with crocodilians.
There is someone with me, a boy.
I shouldn't have taken the child here.

I am slipping, taking...

Sirens

...Sugar-sighing seas swell and stir
my seaman's obsession with blonde pleasures
but treachery’s buried in treasures feminine gold
a flute  a lyre  voices honey dipped in gilded danger
temptation bu...

Lost

...Occasionally, I arouse an unaccountable dislike
Even from those who love me
I don't give any reasons, none at all.
Maybe that's a reason.
But then why don't I dislike them?
I have no desire for ...

Echoes Of The Silent Shore

...How can I sever wolf-waves from the selfish sea?
I ache to cut the rogue from the relentless flow
his crest —swelled in high rise on testosterone tide—
swindles my tease to tame his blue Neptune f...

Gavin, Help Me

...Gavin, help me.
Your innocence is coveted now, you see.
I’ve fallen for this girl.
She’s got hearts in a wild twirl.

Noah, help me.
This courage runs away through the trees.
I’ve fallen for t...

Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

...Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk brib...

Devils Tower

...Devils Tower

Millennium ago, the elements exposed
A magma-formed monolith protrusion;
Nine hundred feet high without obstruction,
On the rolling plains of Wyoming.

Hexagonal columns o...

The commuter

...You see the sunlight amongst the scree
There was a man 
who couldn't tell me anything
Where there was once the comfort
of the evenings telegraph line
he runs wild amongst shops turned into flatl...

The Devilish Qualm

...And there, painted
and playing in sweetest frame 
is the timeless province.
There, suspended 
by the arches of axiom,
with sputtering brushes
of wielded coherent structure.
I drown upon speari...

Just Another Murder of Crows

...JUST ANOTHER MURDER OF CROWS
A poem by Ellen Gwaltney Bales

All day long he hears them screeching
Up in the trees
Their raucous cries
Their “Scree, scree, screes”
He does his best to ignore t...

Blackbeck Tarn

...you are above
so you descend to the water
on stiff legs
scrabbling down the scree

the tarn looks like mercury
spilled into the umbilicus
of the mountain

when approached
you see the mirror...

Hereafter

...Living on a planet, unsure if I belong 
Where only sand grains and fossils, seem to last long 
The instinct to breathe air, compelling me along 
And the miracle that’s water, strives to prolong 
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