Short Buttes Poems

war rages upon buttes
nature's elements lash out
against lofty peaks

frigid winds and rain
slowly carve out gaping wounds
indiscernibly

deeply scarred faces
erosive testimony
of battered bodies

Tanya Harrington  ©  07-03-2012
For Mountain Haiku Contest...

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The mountains of the mind
are not high,
peaks that raise no taller
than the spike of a moment,

and yet,

to climb them can be treacherous,
thoughts can be avalanches.

Better to just watch,
those bluffs, buttes, and cliffs
as if on an oscilloscope,
let them pass you by
as meaningless blips....

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Amazing views of undulating colorful sandstone hill                         
              on the slopes of Coyote Buttes of United States' Arizona
                      Nature's artist uses soft smooth painting quill 
             gifted by the Supreme God on earth's plates a vivid corona  


                       Date: 14th July 2016
                       Contest Sponsored by: Broken Wings
                       in One Stanza - One Only - Poetry Contest...

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Image of South Africa Cape Town Table provided by Pixabay

Token Steps 


Ruling winds the austral buttes naked slopes ...

                   as vortex smoky rise aloft Zulu's kraal
            Clans in circular indlu huts enclosing round
                   all women famous to craft their beads
           while getting set for tomorrows Reed Dance
                   a trait of Zulu armistice Nguni extends

Bestill, war drums eve chants Shaka's hopes ...


2021 May 29...

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