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:
shenandoah, autumn, endurance, loss, mountains,
Form: Lyric
248 eman dine tare bala jay
...248 (eman dine tare bala jay)
On a day like this, perhaps,we may hum along the river Shenandoah , carefree
On a day whence it rains to reign a full swing, even though unpredictable, the longest...
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Categories:
shenandoah, allah,
Form: Free verse
Troubadour
...John Denver Tribute 1-31-25
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Troubadour
Annie’s song rings maroon bells
Sung in gratitude by a country boy
As snowflakes celebra...
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Categories:
shenandoah, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Tagoreweb amar sakal dukher pradip
...(amar sakal dukher pradip)
Thistle Thal, My reverie floral, beyond the valley and greenery, handheld delight, the sun
Incomplete ritualistic my pain, meditation to be fulfilled in completion
Whe...
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Categories:
shenandoah, april,
Form: Pastoral
Looking For Space
...
I can still remember in my memory
Those country roads that would take
Me back to west Virginny
Those Blue Ridge Mountains and the river called Shenandoah welcoming me
Like a long lost ...
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Categories:
shenandoah, home, loneliness, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Mervin's room via Jackson Hewitt, Lake Huron
...Mervin's room via Jackson Hewitt, Lake Huron
My dear Nay few!
My dear shenanigan floating near Shenandoah
Let us make a trip itinerary around the upcoming December
For the longest word where sh...
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Categories:
shenandoah, anniversary, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
Just a John Denver Song
...
I tried to write a song like John Denver would have done
Thought the way to do it was to emulate each one
Went to Colorado for a Rocky Mountain High
Found heaven near Shenandoah, but inspiration...
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Categories:
shenandoah, inspiration, introspection, song,
Form: Lyric
The Blue Ridge
...Not lost, but merely seek,
knowledge and understanding.
Both of the natural world and
my mind’s space and time.
What insignificant thoughts will
push worries away,
occupying that space,
and ...
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Categories:
shenandoah, animal, journey, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse
June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
...June nineteenth one hundred and fifty nine years ago
The conclusion of the American Civil War commenced with the articles of surrender agreement of the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, at App...
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Categories:
shenandoah, america, anxiety, crush, evil,
Form: Free verse
Natural Bridge
...NATURAL BRIDGE
Saturday morning in Lynchburg, Virginia I headed
to Natural Bridge, a natural arch considered as one
of natural wonders and a National Historic Landmark.
It is a limestone gorge ...
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Categories:
shenandoah, nature,
Form: Imagism
A Frightening Squall Is Descending To Earth
...Do clouds rapidly flee chased by icy gulls?
Is something more horrifying about to happen?
A frightening squall is descending to Earth,
the airways are free of fowls and raptors,
mothers rescue th...
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Categories:
shenandoah, america, earth, environment, horror,
Form: Narrative
Train - 1958
...TRAIN – 1958
On a warm summer evening
at North Philadelphia Station
the 6:19 on track three, the "Spirit
of Saint Louis-Limited" from Penn Station
New York, Newark and Trenton bound for
Thirt...
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Categories:
shenandoah, childhood, dream,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To Virginia
...Between Blue Ridge Mountains and Chesapeake Bay
Almost eight and a half million people here do sashay,
One of the original colonies, back in the settlers’ day,
Part of the American Revolution, Vir...
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Categories:
shenandoah, travel,
Form: Monorhyme
The Birthday Story By the Coffee Pot
...There I was paddling my vessel
Beneath the daughter of the stars
In the canoe capital of Virginia
Eyes void of that light that brings
The villagers about the fire at the
Crisp of winter pendin...
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Categories:
shenandoah, adventure, cute love, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Happening 90 Ear Candy
...my mind
is circling
with
thoughts&
memories:
higher
higher
the sounds
take me...
...to a land of
contentment:
an interlude
from
the co...
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Categories:
shenandoah, inspirational, music,
Form: Verse
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