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Trailhead Poems - Poems about Trailhead


Premium Member Hit and Outrun
... Trailhead latrine, cracked mirror— three of me grinning wrong. A soap shaver's chewed itself down, there's a beetle on its back in the basin. I clean my hands as best I can, wipe the......

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Categories: trailhead, conflict, self,
Form: Free verse
Gifts of the Winter Witch
...A venetian red yearling’s head Pops up From behind a fallen log Licks rouge from its lips And the syrup sipped from dark maple bark Ears tweaking To the snow-crunch creak Of my dog and me appr......

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Categories: trailhead, angel, animal, earth, january,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member White Broom
...*A young man went out for a stroll into a remote patch of icy blue Adirondak It's been a few moons since he was last seen they discovered his lithium car at the trailhead A white broom swept hi......

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Categories: trailhead, adventure, nature,
Form: Free verse
Lost In the Woods
...When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find ......

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Categories: trailhead, absence, analogy, blessing, depression,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Whispering
...The man went for a mountain run, told his fiancé of his plans. A sundial slowly waltzed on by... but the man never came back. They called in search and rescue. They spread out far into the wil......

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Categories: trailhead, adventure, lost,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member No Shortcuts
...Can’t just jump to the finish line Need to put in the work along the way Would be nice to only reap the gains But no shortcuts despite what others say Progress needs to build upon itself Can’t......

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Categories: trailhead, analogy, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Taylor Creek
...Hiking the canyon, the trailhead below, down the stairs we would dread in a few hours or so. Beautiful day, sunny and hot, Lovely tall pines, shady in spots, Onward, upward we go! Forty creek......

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Categories: trailhead, adventure,
Form: Other
Lost In the Woods
...Lost in the woods Are you kidding? My feet they’re freezing We’re lost in the woods! We’re lost in the woods! You warned me of mud And you certainly didn’t disappoint And now there’s even......

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Categories: trailhead, humorous, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Coming Back Home
...Calloused by the do-or-die hero's walk on the perilous road Over hazard's hill stumbling in soldier's shoes of regret and sorrow Merciless these wars of tired tyrants, this tr......

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Categories: trailhead, conflict, courage, depression, endurance,
Form: Acrostic
The Peak, Part I
...The trailhead stands there before me, after two hour's drive, a peak with a panorama that others call sublime. I have been meaning to climb it, test my will and my heart, cannot believe it to......

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Categories: trailhead, journey, life, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Escaping Teh Clouds
...Escaping the Clouds by Odin Roark Entering one's Now… How long the traverse. Mountainous obstacles Seem not of our creation, Yet rock hard impasses appear Where clear ......

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Categories: trailhead, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exiting the Clouds
...Exiting the Clouds Entering one's Now How long the traverse Mountainous obstacles Seem not of our creation Yet rock hard impasses appear Where clear path seemed obvious Now impassible The best ......

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Categories: trailhead, philosophy, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Listening Friend
...everything is beyond green today even the bluebirds take notice, and seronade the dancing sun death is so far away- iv'e given a name to the Iris that lives and plays near the trailhead that has gre......

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Categories: trailhead, introspection, nature, green,
Form: Free verse
The Grand View
...Sick. Post-alcohol. Line. Bathroom stall. Arizona. Trembling soul. Tourist. Obligatory stroll. Trailhead. The Grand View. Crowd. Suffocating solitude. Death. One false step. Breathing. Relentl......

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Categories: trailhead, places
Form: Rhyme

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