poetry of dark hills and wild mountains
by john
Published by Poetic Matrix Press
79 pages, price $14.00
ISBN 0-9714003-0-X
Available at Amazon.com
Description
The Book
on occasion after time spent in the dark hills and wild mountains there is an opening
into mystery mystery that comes not as a gift not as a need
but mystery that comes as a relationship and a revelation this is a work
that seeks that mystery
john
john has lived and worked in the sierra foothills high mountains of sequoia
yosemite on palomar mountain traveled the lush coastal hills
the rockies great smokies blue ridge parkway olympic mountains
baja's dessert hills nicaraguan's volcanic mountains the low jungle hills
of vietnam migrating between mountain and city complete only in both
From dark hills and wild mountains:
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palomar mountain
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crystal presentation
for jack
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i reach out extend my hand across snowy hills
i make undulations with you
oak trees sprout up snow brushed up in mounds
we let the moon that is crescent in the hot blue sky
make shapes then dance out with our music
our breathing moves leaves and the hairs on my face
your hair ruffles across our body
my lungs cry out the sharp sweet feel of quick air
goes in across dry lips that drink in the fast mountain
snow falling from the fir tree does so with drama
cracks loudly enters the ring of quiet
sending long shouts out onto the icy pond drum surface
breaking through crusting snow demands a mind
not drifting but sharp one step deep into the next
lifted by intention and set again on a firm surface
pulling up breathing into the fullness of limbs
looking out by a willful act to see the land
that is soft in the distance but demanding
the hardness of attraction the fascination that pulls me
and takes all my exertion
i can finally die into this and look up
through deep snow and see tiny points of light
that hover in the space above
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in the spirit of give away
the crystal
lays amethyst and six sided inside
the crystal life
union
they have made out to in
feather of hawk and grey smoke
of sage
are gates of the temple
and temple is hill and desert sky
and mountain there and
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