Short Yosemite Poems

no litter in tents

    scuffle --- frost night long --- rustle

          mouse feasts  we listen...

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My grandmother's voice
Contained her grandmother's voice,
An ancient lullaby.
The Yosemite Valley
Took million of years to form....

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Yosemite 

Frozen precipice.
Just around the bend…watching.
The white valley rests.
Glistened by the noonday sun.
Famous mountain waters fall.

© August 5, 2010
Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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yosemite Sam
casper Friendly Ghost
huey Dewy Lou
grouchy Elmer Fudd
fastest road runner

bright bugs bunny
sweet daisy duck
chip and dale
Harvey comics

mickey mouse
underdog
wendy witch

sixties
cartoons

me...

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Bugs Bunny 
Was smart, witty and funny
His tag line was what’s up, doc
Rivals would just stare and gaulk

Yosemite Sam
Made bugs and his buddies scram
Dubbed them all as mere varmints 
He had a keen eye to their footprints









09/01/2021
Contest: Cleritoons
Sponsor:Joseph May...

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what trump and pence will do       

again did notice
we would find under table
bottle of water

Jim Horn

Do not know why but Trump 
and Pence had placed a bottle
of water under the table that
they both were sitting at. He
had called Thailand Thighland 
and Yosemite Yosemight.
How about that?...

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Big Hat Envy 

Wish I could wear a
Big jaunty hat, 
But haven’t the head For it 
And that is that!

Head’s too small
And I sure ain’t tall
Little short legs
Big schnozle and all

So I’ll go through life hatless
Accept what I am
Otherwise I end up looking
…Like Yosemite Sam...
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Yosemite’s huge boulders
Sliced in two in the Ice Age
Half Dome and El Capitan
Both carved by a sheet of ice, a glacier

Peering down from the mountains
Buttercups grace the valley
Where deer come to graze at dusk
Worlds of wonder wait at national parks


*A Parise Pariku for Rick’s contest.
Written June 21, 2012...

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Airplane take off
Banging hammer
Crickets
Dog snoring
Engine rev
Faucet drip
Gargling
Heartbeat through a stethoscope
Ice calving from a glacier
Jumping rope
Knock on a door
Laughter
Metronome
Nutcracker cracking nuts
One hand clapping
Panpipe
Quack of a duck
River's flow
Sneezing
Typewriter tapping
Ululating widows
Vacuum cleaner cleaning
Whistling
Xylophone
Yosemite geyser going off
Zen master chant...

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A unique vision through the camera lens,
Portraits of nature in black and white.
Letting the beauty of contrast speak.

The California Coastline, the Sierras, 
The Southwest..all in the starkest outline.
And Yosemite, whose grandeur he loved best.

A life spent capturing these wonders
Letting his work inspire; an incentive
To protect these treasures for all our tomorrows.

For a look at his work to to:
www.anseladams.com...

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Wildfires rage in Texas,
Like they need the added heat;
And thirty shootings in New York
Made Labor Day complete.

Famine grips Somalia,
And the U.S.A.’s caught spying.
In Egypt, at Mubarak’s trial,
Witnesses are lying.

Eighteen in Yosemite
Have died while on vacation.
Victims of the hurricane
Are wracked with indignation.

A rainy day – I stayed indoors
And caught up with the news.
As if the rain were not enough,
The Times gave me the blues....

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