“Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam …” —Dr Brewster M Higley VI
Oh, give me a home ...
where the big bison bellow,
bellowing in beautiful
bucolic backgrounds,
backgrounds begging
backpackers beware,
beware of being beset by
big bison bellowing!
Beset by a bison?
Bison basics best behavior—
Better to back up bovine-like
than be busted up by a bison
Better believe it!
Categories:
yellowstone, animal, fear, nature,
Form: Alliteration
I run out to see the joggers.
The prettiest one screams.
I am not scary! I think.
A mean old one is blaring a can that hurts my ears.
I run back into the thicket.
What is wrong with these two-leggers?
Do they not know I only want a bit of food?
Dang! Here comes that uniform guy with the badge.
The one that shot me in the butt and put a tag on me.
I crouch down low. Wishing he would go away.
He is ruining my visit with the next set of joggers.
Categories:
yellowstone, animal,
Form: Free verse
A wondrous thing is the human spirit.
Nothing else that God has made comes near it.
Witness Nature that we call Yellowstone -
It stands exemplar and it stands alone
in pitting man against his own planet -
Just blood and bone against solid granite.
A volcano that can turn our world dark
we turned into our own National Park.
The paradox of a vacation spent
in the mouth of a live volcanic vent
is lost on the spirit of the human soul -
Maybe someday - but for now just a hole.
1-18-20
Contest: Polarities and Paradoxes
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Categories:
yellowstone, vacation,
Form: Couplet
The Yellowstone River runs through the heart
Of a bold and magnificent treasure.
An explorer's paradise from the start,
It has proven perfect for our leisure.
A natural wildlife home and preserve
To bison and wolves and elk and mule deer.
Serenity reins, as creatures deserve,
While hot springs and geysers boil and appear.
Majestic mountains and deep valley grass -
Then Winter snow to silence the planet -
Draw human spirits from cities en masse
To a place where common sense would ban it.
It's a super volcano - one of few -
It may kill millions before it is through
10/29/17
For contest Sonnet With A Twist for Michael Vacek
Categories:
yellowstone, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Coyote hunters
only troika 's are aloud
snow hurricanes
come in from th' cold
heat and fire and hot drinks too
window snow shadows
Yellowstone in cold
something special in winter
with lights and warmth
winds blowing sweeping
rolling curls shape the ridge
with a great battle
Yellowstone sun
and light spread in winter
eyes sparkle and shine
28/12/2016
Categories:
yellowstone, winter,
Form: Haiku
Snow does not win victory at Hell’s door,
It transforms to screaming steam,
rising above the piled snowflakes.
Lowly bacteria feed on the heat.
The shimmering water stained,
as colored glass in a cathedral.
A restless beauty reigns imminent,
with destruction a growing sister,
certain to spoil a glorious landscape.
A tumble beneath the inviting waters,
harkens instant reincarnation,
and a meeting with a vast universe.
Categories:
yellowstone, beauty, color, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
We sat there just groovin', our senses so keen
Trippin' and giggling, taking in nature’s scene
We smirked as visitors drove up in blind haste
"Take a picture! Let's go! No time left to waste!"
We were smug, silly hippies, naive to the core
So certain we had found the key to that door
Those tourists were clueless, yet then so were we
My highway to wisdom does not come toll-free
I'll never fly to heaven on Cannabis weeds
Through brambles and thorns my gutted path leads
If I find Eden, I must first weed and plow
Wish I could go back to Yellowstone now
Categories:
yellowstone, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Abundance of life
Water-fire-breathers
Home to extinction
Categories:
yellowstone, absence, adventure, age, america,
Form: Free verse
I can hear the water,
a giggle almost,
in the small cold spring
by which I sat
that foggy morning,
sketchbook, pen, and watercolors in hand.
A weed with a single white flower
grew from the innards
of a half submerged,
humus-bound log
alive with neon-green moss.
A brilliant web
spun by a tiny jewel-orange spider
laced the flower to the log.
I dipped my brush in the spring water,
washed it around in the appropriate colors,
painted the scene as best I could,
never coming close to capturing
the brilliance of flower, moss and spider.
Only approximations of nature are possible.
Categories:
yellowstone, nature, spring, flower, flower,
Form: Free verse