Bright Angel Trail
...My knee was a cracked hinge,
each step a bargain struck with pain.
The canyon walls pressed in,
heat still rising from the stone
long after sun left it behind.
Halfway to the distant rim,
I f...
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Categories:
trailside, adventure, inspirational, memory,
Form: Free verse
Summer Sonnet
...Just a summer song I wrote 'long the trail.
A heavy sleepy tune of time held still.
A dusty melody of ivy full
upon a broken trailside split fence rail.
The grasses along the trail once upright...
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Categories:
trailside, allegory, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
Beside the Stream
...dust to dust and ash to ash
I wish that i could bring you back
from your waist a silken sash
lies here drying on the rack
twirling beneath the chandelier
our mirrored hands entwined
if only ...
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Categories:
trailside, death, emotions, heartbreak, i
Form: Rhyme