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Timberline Poems - Poems about Timberline

Aint It Funny How It Is
... I like the accidental, incidental way- the mist kisses and lifts from the timberline, like angelic lung that breathes it all in, drifts to the next flowering, a honey bee in a land o......

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Categories: timberline, art,
Form: Rhyme
TransplanT
... Aided by the wind, entities take flight like prismatic colors- talismanning chanced direction "of watering misfit eye", looking for a new place to touchdown and......

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Categories: timberline, angel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Have You Been?
... Have you been Hiking the Quiraing trail on the isle of Skye? watching golden eagles as they fly by? Have you been Hiking through fields of paintbrush on Mount Hood? From Trillium Lake to Timb......

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Categories: timberline, courage, feelings, horror, prison,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hold the Phone
...Hold the phone, hold the freakin’ phone. Lisa’s got a boyfriend! I’ve never seen Lisa with a boyfriend. Lisa draws men like fireworks on a dark night, but I’ve never seen her keep one. I mean, it’s ......

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Categories: timberline, boyfriend, fashion, humor, money,
Form: Free verse
My Losing Struggle With Not So Easy Chair
...My losing struggle with not so easy "chair" buoyed me aloft beyond outer limits of the twilight zone where dark shadows lurked along green acres creating hee haw sounds. Aforementioned adve......

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Categories: timberline, 12th grade, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme



Snow Collisions and Other Religions
...The snow comes on the rumblings of mistakes As alien nature not named but numbing all the same Comes crashing, colliding by accident in atmospheres In fear, chrystals of silence remind us of the ......

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Categories: timberline, appreciation, beauty, snow,
Form: Free verse
County Down Winter
...County Down winter falls hard buried in snow Bone chilling ice buries the soul that had a heart Sliced in two twice removed from love from life From the equation to a distance in a kiss Mistaken ......

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Categories: timberline, christmas, dark, image, love,
Form: Free verse
Perfection At Its Peak
...Some friends we met a year ago On an Italian tour Said, "Visit us in Oregon - We'd love to see you more." It took a year but here we are And what a day they planned! We drove 200 miles, viewi......

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Categories: timberline, friend,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Not Afraid
...Wilderness! My God at the wilderness Always I have been here, but never this alone Never without some means of transport -yet so I am What choice to make, what direction for survival As if I've n......

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Categories: timberline, adventure,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Mind and Mountain
...MIND AND MOUNTAIN Life A climbing process A gradual, grand ascent to view? Mind can inveigle such To go where all manner wild affecting grows Foothills of some towering height Mind can spi......

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Categories: timberline, imagination,
Form: Free verse
A Pikes Peak Winter Night
...A Pikes Peak Winter Night The mountain peak at sunset time Gives off a crimson glow And high above the timberline There lies eight feet of snow I watch the sun drop out of sight And stars glo......

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Categories: timberline, mountains, sky, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member On Barr Trail
...ON BARR TRAIL the going is steep – twenty-five percent grade – twelve miles to the top legs tire already we plan to go half way up to where the trees stop from there only rock and no beauty in the......

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Categories: timberline, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Midnight's Miracle
...Moonlight glistened like stars on the snowy mountain lane Ascending to a mesa above the timberline Horses from the valley ranch often grazed with free rein More than once fillies had climbed......

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Categories: timberline, animalssnow, morning, snow,
Form: Narrative
Big Foot
...From Canada to California back up in the trees, There’s a legendary creature no one ever really sees, He’s a snow-man and an ape-man, and a monster and a myth, But he’s no one that a man would eve......

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Categories: timberline, adventure, animals
Form: Verse
Poisonwood
...Deer linger in the bitterbrush Below the gambel oak— The brittle fern shows no concern For killdeer or cowpoke. The miner’s candle lights our way Now lost in limber pine— The water birch does......

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Categories: timberline, cowboy-western, imagination, introspection, nature,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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