Human Wilderness

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There is a human wilderness

held beneath the skin - Arts - Jim Harrison

 

it's rivers and streams

flowing through the

the vessels of a heart

beating to the drum

of ancestors who paddled

these waterways of discovery

protectors in a world untamed 

walking the shoreline sole//soul

in the quest of understanding dreams

 

it's a tree veining out from

spring to winter, aging

since the first circle of life

a seed, a sapling, breathing

in and out - in between

incantations in a mystical

forest generation to generation

 

it's a desert traveled during

times of drought and lost hope

brittle bones, mirages from

the past, present and future

a cactus flower thirsty for a

drink from cupped hands

of compassion

 

It’s mountains climbed in victory 

and defeat, gaining perspective 

one step at a time no matter how

steep and rocky the terrain

it's a labyrinth in an open meadow

leaving markers between stones

and wildflowers, a spiraling wave

of all life's experience, the meanderings

of the quest to the center of self art

 

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hosted by Linda

Using words from Poet Jim Harrison 

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Sipping Hard Whiskey

It's been a sweltering day, Jim takes in the view of the desert sun. Sipping hard whiskey

quenching his thirst from a long day's work.  The lines on his face show his years and

the calluses on his hands proof life was filled with rough labor.  He pulls the tip of his hat
over his eyes remembering days long ago. 

He was younger then and in love with a rancher's daughter.  They would meet  by the
watering hole as the sun started to dip over the horizon. She loved it when the sky
was splashed with brilliant orange and yellow hues.  He would recite poetic verses
in the night.  Their bodies sang songs that only they could hear.  Oh, sweet Rosita
was his piece of paradise in this desert land.  

He drifts back, a cow is screaming across the arroyo and he is alone.

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written for dVerse

hosted by Linda

writing prosery 144 words

using "a cow is screaming across the arroyo"

from the Poem ‘ Cow’ by Jim Harrison