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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Our Wonderful World.22

Details of my Poetry Month Project can be found here.



22. Mt. Everest


AVALANCHE

Snow slide,
snow slip,
rapid flow
of snow
down a slope.

Neither rare,
nor random,
a natural hazard
of destructive
capability.

Coldly
impersonal,
unplanned
and
sudden.

Snow slide,
snow slip,
rapid flow
of snow
down a slope.

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2014



Carol's Great Barrier reef poems are here.

Kevin's Mt. Everest poem is here.

4 comments:

  1. Mine: http://www.haikudeck.com/everest-education-presentation-bA0bPErzp6
    Kevin

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  2. Great description of an avalanche!

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  3. Like the repetitive alliteration. Sounds slippery on my tongue.

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  4. "Everest"

    Everest.
    Threatening.
    Twenty nine thousand feet.
    Thin air.
    Bitter cold.
    Gale force winds.
    Ice fields.
    Avalanches.

    Everest.
    Beckoning.
    Climb to touch the heavens.
    Climb to prove you can.
    Climb because I'm here.

    The mountain speaks.

    (C) Carol Wilcox, 2014

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