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Poetry: Crane Mountain Summit, Adirondacks

June 11, 2022 by Edward Zahniser 2 Comments

Crane Mountain Summit, Adirondacks

Steep climbing into more rare air underscores
how what is most immediate takes primacy

You may even suspect an expansive mind
goes before your own like explorers’ scouts

Knowing-ahead was essential to their role,
to evoke the intuitive grounded in experience

Each encounter with the unknown may ape
unlocking our entire panoply of experience

as Beauty and Sanctity chat across disciplines
like circus barkers auditioning for Heaven.

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Filed Under: Adirondacks & NNY, Arts Tagged With: Crane Mountain, Johnsburg, Poetry

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  1. Bob Meyer says

    June 11, 2022 at 9:00 AM

    Ed,
    It took a couple of readings but once it came together, or my brain came together with it☺️, this is a very cool poem.

    Reply
  2. Ed Zahniser says

    June 11, 2022 at 11:56 AM

    Hey Bob

    Thanks for your comment on the poem. Glad it came together, sorry that took a couple of readings! I’ll work on that!!!

    Reply

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