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Tag: mountains

Posted on December 21, 2025December 17, 2025

December Oxbow

the first coat
of winter’s
white

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Posted on November 13, 2025November 8, 2025

Clouds Like The Day’s Breath

in November’s dark
the light is brighter
and the blues colder

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Posted on November 5, 2025November 2, 2025

Fields At Rest

fortitude
is being built
in the fallow field

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Posted on June 17, 2025June 6, 2025

Summer Morning

an invitation
to linger in
a long lazy day

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Posted on June 7, 2025May 31, 2025

Locomotion

the weather is a train
billowing her steam clouds
as she travels south

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Posted on May 21, 2025May 18, 2025

The Valley In Spring

clouds flying free
the rail fence meanders
as trees converse in green

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Posted on April 26, 2025April 20, 2025

The Blue And Green

dear pines evergreen
the sky so ever blue
through lines of the seasons

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Posted on December 5, 2024December 3, 2024

Winter Is A Queen Of White

everything touched
with her scepter of cold
commanded to dazzle and glisten

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Posted on November 10, 2024November 3, 2024

Falling Fast

a flurry
of oak leaves
hurries towards winter

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Posted on October 29, 2024October 18, 2024

Moving On

as the wind whisks away
leaves and clouds
new intimacies of the landscape divulged

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Posted on October 19, 2024October 7, 2024

Change

life and time
always on the move
let us be their gracious guests

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Posted on October 5, 2024September 27, 2024

Above Below

the sky and the river
together holding
onto the clouds

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Posted on September 12, 2024September 1, 2024

Thunderhead

Zeus at work
stirring up the sky
billowing the blue

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Posted on July 29, 2024July 22, 2024

Sunset Leaves

to the departing sky
each leaf of every tree
waves goodbye

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Posted on July 23, 2024July 23, 2024

The Sun And The Moon

before the moon
was done
the sun had begun
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thin line of a bird
flying in the space
where night meets day

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Posted on July 20, 2024July 20, 2024

Heather’s Pink Sunrise

braving night’s darknesses
arriving in the solace
of the pastel light

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Posted on June 30, 2024June 23, 2024

Everything Is Possible

as the sun rises
the day’s contours
emerge from the darkness

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Posted on June 13, 2024June 8, 2024

Rising

unveiled
the blue green
river valley morning

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Posted on April 20, 2024April 18, 2024

April On The Marsh

a small hole
in the cloud cover
blue breaking through

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Posted on March 2, 2024February 26, 2024

Shy Sky

the day ended so softly
I almost missed the kiss
that was her parting blush

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Posted on January 3, 2024December 26, 2023

The River High

big rain  
trees up to their knees in water 
the river hungry for land

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Posted on December 18, 2023December 13, 2023

Replenishment

thirsty for color
I gulped
the blue sky

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Posted on September 16, 2023September 3, 2023

Dog Days

lazy boats
only the clouds
are sailing today

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Posted on August 31, 2023August 19, 2023

Heron On High

you are an arrow
piercing
the foreboding sky

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Posted on August 25, 2023August 13, 2023

Summer Afternoon

these clouds carry
shade not water
and still we are thankful

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Posted on August 22, 2023August 13, 2023

Three Sky Morning

the day already divided up
the pink sunrise, a blue mid-day
a mackerel bellied sunset

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Posted on May 28, 2023May 25, 2023

Spring Morning

a gentle lavender call
to greet day
stirs the river

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Posted on April 8, 2023April 2, 2023

The Long Wait

in the emptiness
of April
gifts of possibility

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Posted on March 24, 2023March 20, 2023

Delicacies

the snow like
seven minute icing
the tractor frosted

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Posted on February 4, 2023January 31, 2023

Altitude Of Blue

the sky sharing
some of her repertoire
illustrating infinity

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