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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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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We’re actually working on another collab 🙂 thank you!
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That is awesome 🙂 You are welcome!
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I am so addicted to collabs that I have several ongoing right now and I am smiling a big goofy grin just thinking about them. I love this collaborative writing!
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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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thanks 🙂 I wrote a couple of them at work. Shh don’t tell anyone!
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Welcome :)I have no idea what you are talking about. What elephant? 😉
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😀 the one in the room 😉
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OMG, there’s an elephant in the room????? 😉
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yes….I think it just squashed me…if I turn sideways…I might disappear…
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Oh, yes, like a super power. You could be a member of the new X-Men and we could name you Wafer 🙂
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lol! I have dibs on Captain America. He’s not an X-man but…sigh…he looks real nice in spandex and maybe he’ll let me toss his shield 😉
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🙂 You will get no argument from me – CA is all yours 🙂 I hope you get to enjoy the shield tossing 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I love his character: the nice guy. not enough of those around anymore.
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You are welcome 🙂 Yes, I agree – the world needs more guys like this!
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I put my order in to come back in my next life as a nice tough guy to help even things out. Being a chick is just too much damned work.
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That’s a brilliant idea. To whom should I forward my order? 🙂
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I just keep putting it out there. Woman have too many things they need to worry about. Guys have it easy. So next time, give me the easy side of the street.
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🙂 We have our obstacles but I agree, it’s nothing like many women face.
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darn there are obstacles on your side of the street too? maybe I should come back as a turtle.
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Ah, yes, there are. Ooh, I love turtles: slow and steady 🙂
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c’est moi, mon ami, slow and steady wins the race.
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Ah, c’est bon! 🙂
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oui! I blame exhaustion for dragging out the high school French!
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Gotta love high school French 🙂 I hope you rest well soon 🙂
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I will. No late night chats with my favorite ladies on the far side of the globe tonight 🙂
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I am sure they will be happy enough to let you rest and content to wait until you are all refreshed 🙂
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it is just wonderful having someone to talk to about anything or nothing at all. 😀 we tend to get carried away
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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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I am small and quite portable 🙂 One of guy friends likes to toss me over his shoulder because he can.
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I can see that 🙂 I don’t mind carrying so hop on 🙂
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lol! I’m so small, you can’t see me. 😉
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hehe, well, here’s a pocket 🙂
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I’m already in quite cozy in there 😉
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Sweet! Let me know if you need anything else 🙂 🙂
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I’m good 🙂
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Yes, yes you are 🙂
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😀
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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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lol! must have! it’s hard to tell from my supine position in the floor. Let me peel myself off it and see… 😉
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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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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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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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I have to have one for my job since I, like Annie, work in IT. I have to install our mobile apps on my phone and check them and our websites every time we publish code.
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Ah, yes, the tech requirements for the job. Glad I am a musician 🙂
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don’t you need microphones, amplifiers and other complicated musical paraphernalia?
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No, me and my guitar 🙂
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no recording device?
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Well, I do have a little MP3 Recorder 🙂
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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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Ha, yes, this laptop and my MP3 recorder – i am all decked out. I have nothing ‘i’ related 🙂
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i like it , thx
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Sighing here….. 🙂
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we were too when we wrote this! 🙂 Thank you
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I’m sure you were 🙂
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You’re on a roll! Gorgeous words ❤️
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Thanks Annie 🙂 we should collab sometime 🙂
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Collab with my favourite Boolean Poetess – That’d be awesome 😀
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🙂 any time! are you on google docs?
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Yes I am 😀
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here’s my google handle: mkucsera28@gmail.com
let’s get a shared doc going and some collaborative magic! 🙂
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Mine’s whatthewomanwrote@gmail.com
Yayyyy I hope I don’t disappoint! 😀
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You disappoint? Never! Sharing doc in 3…2…1…shared!
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You presented these with such panache! You are a wonderful writer and thank you! I am glad you all enjoyed them!
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You are a wonderful writer too! Don’t forget that you wrote half of these babies! 🙂 I enjoy writing with you 🙂 Looking forward to continuing our current collab. 🙂
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Me too!!! 🙂
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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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Thank you! I love those stanzas too! I might have written them, not sure since I did 3 other collabs at the same time! 🙂
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I admire both your work and Carol’s. Exquisitely beautiful collaboration!
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Thank you! I really enjoy writing with Carol. She has such a wonderful vision.
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Yes, she does. So do you.
You’re welcome!
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aw thank you 🙂
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My pleasure!
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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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Those are fantastic. We loved them too! I think we both write those 🙂 IT’s all mixing together 🙂
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Mel, you are a wonderwoman, I’m convinced. Three simultaneous collabs. I bow to thee 🙂
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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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awesome! made me lose my ways in the enchanted realm!
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Thank you 🙂
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you are welcome!
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