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Moon’s Mountain

Moon’s Mountain*

*A collaboration with Carol from WritersDream9.Wordpress.com

Carol is a skilled poet who excels at crafting haikus, haibuns and tankas that read like a Japanese master penned them. She also creates short fiction, longer poems and haigas of breath-stealing breadth and beauty.

Come walk with us under the moon, up a mountain path into nature’s magic.

Majestic fortress
Snowcapped with white purity
Kisses the blue sky

Snow-crowned peak sparkling
My tears like diamonds falling
Freezing on my skin

Moon touches the peak
Silver light on its pine skirt
Alpine wonderland

The wind blows gently
As I shiver from its strength
My heart longs to climb

virgin snow crunches
A wolf howls in the distance
Nature’s symphony

I dance twirling round
Moving to howls and wind song
Dancing with shadows

Dusk casts its shadows
Blue fingers coaxing the night
dropping its cold veils

I am not afraid
As I embrace the darkness
Put my fears away

Above the stars shine
One streaks across the heavens
A flash of brilliance

A mote in God’s eye
Comets carry my wish hence
Fueled by my desire

Clouds scud past the peak
Hurrying to far mountains
Leaving wind behind

I stay in the snow
Making my way higher
Determined in joy

The jagged peak
Kisses the sky tenderly
The sky responds

Heaven erupted
Gems litter the dark’ning sky
I lie back and sigh

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84 thoughts on “Moon’s Mountain”

  1. You both are among my favourite writers on WP and this is beautiful collaboration. I hope you get to write together more often 🙂

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    4. It is a lot of fun, for sure. You are far more capable than I am to keep up with them all and I commend you for that.

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    28. Yes it is, but I just realized, I will be the one doing the carrying as I am a few pounds heavier than you are 😀 😀

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    38. oh, and why is one of your tires larger than the other? did one of them get snagged beneath the elephant, too? 😉

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    40. Hahaha! Hahahahaha! Imagining you peeling yourself off the floor!!! Priceless! Actually, now that I think about it, I had to do this far too often in my early university days. 😉

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    41. every time i fall down, I have to peel myself off the pavement 🙂 Texting and walking causes skinned knees and banged chins because you have to protect the phone, you know. skin regrows but phone screen cracks don’t heal.

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    42. Hahaha, this is hilarious. Melinda, Melinda, ‘phone screen cracks’ don’t heal and at $500 plus per phone, one can only afford so many 🙂 BTW, this is the reason why I do not own a cell phone 🙂

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    49. aha! You do have some tech. I’ll bet you have an ipad squirreled away. I even have one and I don’t like the damned thing! (My company gave it to me for testing so I stopped borrowing my coworkers’ ipads)

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    50. Ha, yes, this laptop and my MP3 recorder – i am all decked out. I have nothing ‘i’ related 🙂

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  6. And these are two stanzas caught my eye and my imagination:
    “I dance twirling round
    Moving to howls and wind song
    Dancing with shadows

    Dusk casts its shadows
    Blue fingers coaxing the night
    dropping its cold veils”

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  8. I love these stanzas

    I dance twirling round
    Moving to howls and wind song
    Dancing with shadows

    Dusk casts its shadows
    Blue fingers coaxing the night
    dropping its cold veils

    I am not afraid
    As I embrace the darkness
    Put my fears away

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    1. Actually 5… 0_o I might have a slight addiction to these collabs…just a slight one…they were fun though it was a challenge to get on the google doc at the same time 🙂

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