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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Written for One Stop Poetry - Sunday Shoot


The blue sky blends into the background of straw colored mountains

Flicks of white snow struggle against melting on the slopes

It is extremely desolate

Beautiful and yet an urgency not to be alone on the road

Praying the vehicle makes every winding turn

And yet, the beauty of it all, mesmerizing

It is so peaceful, and sings me a lullaby in silence

Driving toward the azure sky, as it nestles into a crook and valley

My goal to stay awake and enjoy natures beauty

It would be a shame to slip down a slope

Though the scenery is hypnotizing me

Never to tell anyone of the beauty I have witnessed

Wysteria

13 comments:

  1. Enjoyed your take on the prompt. Reminded me of both the pleasure of fine scenery as well as the nerve-wracking feelings occurring when one decides to travel in a car prone to breakdown. "My goal to stay awake and enjoy natures beauty," wonderful line to great challenge response! cheers

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  2. A thought provoking poem of the dangers in such beauty, and that is the balance of nature. Well written.

    Anita.

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  3. We're aborbed into the horizon of this photograph -- the hills and the road pull us toward an unseen point. Bueaty and the natural landscape is always accompanied by danger -- and you caught that well.

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  4. You witnessed it well...and it has been recieved here.

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  5. Glynn, Anita and Dustus. I have tried to make it a point to visit everyone's site by tonight. Thank you for visiting mine and leaving kind words. You are all an inspiration to me

    Wysteria

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  6. Your poem is so beautiful and describes the photo so well. Staying awake while viewing such lovely scenery is for sure sometimes difficult.

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  7. Depths of danger lurks beyond the open road, often hidden by her beauty, love the reminders.

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  8. lovely piece and lovely photo- where is it?

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  9. a lovely poem full of beauty and peace - happy one shoot!

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  10. Good take on the hypnotic and subtly dangerous quality of anything repeated infinitely, even the beauty and freedom of the road.

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  11. "toward the azure sky, as it nestles into a crook and valley" -- beautiful as the photo itself. Enjoyed the journey.

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  12. This is lovely. So perfectly matched to the photo.

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  13. "The blue sky blends into the background of straw colored mountains"...
    Wow...
    From the first line I was transfixed to your poem...
    I love reading it so much :)

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