Short Colorado Poems

Colorado pot—
Yeah—legal. Inhale, ingest—
California dreams—...

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Colorado pot—
Yeah—legal. Inhale, ingest—
CAl wishes—longs for....

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rocky mountain high
colorado mountain tops
john denver not dead...

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Grand Canyon, deep gorge,
Colorado, majestic;
Meander in flow....

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Golden, Aspen leaf
spirit of painted horses
Hewn logs Cabin, fall...

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July Flame
Fire all around
Even before the month
We are the fire
Always and forever
Colorado...

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in colorado
   the geese recall the last time
     we threw crumbs on pond

                5/6/2014...

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No matter where you are
You need 12 layers
Because the sun is shining and it’s raining
At the same time...

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Snow
Sweeping
Surmounting 
Swallowing whole
Storm


Stuck
Stranded
Silently
Suffering till
Spring...

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Lavender mountains
Backdrop to a gorgeous pond
Lacy silvery clouds

Sigh of appreciation
The joyous heart feels home...

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Shadows on a cave wall,
eyes that look for truth

Figments of what sight denies
—dancing resolute

(Durango Colorado: September, 2004)...

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Poet Helen Jackson nee Fiske
moved to Colorado improve her health risk
She once schooled with friend Emily D
with native culture was her empathy...

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Two friends an MBA acquired
In Colorado were inspired
A drug store for Joe
A pot farm for Moe
A joint venture they conspired


August 22, 2017...

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Written on July 23, 2012

An explosive mind
Death-filled actions without heart
The day the world found out


Dedicated to all of the victims
of Aurora, Colorado...

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Adolph Coors
brewed something everybody pours.
He started a brewery in Golden, Colorado.
His legendary beer was a product so many people got to know.
...

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Colorado had never looked this beautiful
She is a scary, treacherous state
so many fathers have killed their whole family
but at least we have the mist a survivor said...

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Thus Spoke Brother Moji 
(not Zarathustra)

With all due respect,
irrespective of 
with regards to
I have no respect
for irregardless. 

July 5, 2021
Boulder, Colorado...

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For me,
one time is not enough
Canyons widen
neath mountain bluffs

For me,
each time lay unforeseen
Magic transient
—a richer dream

(Montrose Colorado: September, 2021)...

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Let's do something this summer.
Let's not.

Let's go to Virginia.
Let's not.

Let's travel.
Let's not.

Come to see me in Colorado.
I would rather not.

I am coming to see you.
Why?...

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I-t
R-ightfully
E-mploys
N-oble
E-xpression

C-reating
O-ne
L-ine
O-f
R-apturous
A-nd
D-elightful
O-bjective

Topic: Birthday of Irene Colorado (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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I-n 
R-eality 
E-very 
N-ame 
E-xpresses 

C-onnotation 
O-f 
L-ife 
O-r 
R-eason 
A-nd 
D-enotation 
O-ftentimes 

Topic: Birthday of Irene Colorado (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Cuddly wuddly duddly scuddly mountain bear
Sitting with a bouquet of flowers in the Colorado air
Who are you waiting for, sitting there with glee.
Will the butterfly balloon go to your friend Ms. Lee?...

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a 
partly 
cloudy sky
hovers above
spaghetti western
invokes echo chamber
of Ennio Morricone
I fancy horseback through prairies
pistols hidden beneath old ponchos
a fistful of dollars to the victor...

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The West changes you…
 its wind blowing
distant and near 

A promise you 
had always meant
to keep

A feeling
better gifted
than kept

A memory
forever waiting 
—unknown

(Limon Colorado: July, 2019)...

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Colorado spruce

   Towering eagles' aerie

      Greets glorious dawn

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
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Placed No. 2 Linda-Marie's "Flowers, Trees & Scrubs I Luv Haiku" Contest - August 2010...

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