April sun ...

 

April sun –

leaves above the fence

thicken

Himalayas (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 28)

 

our small plane

slowly past the peak –

such vast white

*

so many peaks

smaller but not small –

stretching as far …

*

mountaintops

in all directions –

bright sharp white

*

I rode the air

to the Peak of Heaven –

and knew myself small

*

once upon a time

Mother of the World 

I gazed on your face

My response to the final prompt for NaHaiWriMo  2025.

~ Our souvenir from Buddha Air. ~

Climber (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 27)

 

the climber –

a small dark speck

I don’t envy

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Plateau (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 26)

the wild peaks

flatten over time

to a plateau

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Crevasse (NaHaiWriMo 2025. Day 25)

crevasse –

gazing down, I imagine

bodies

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Scree (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 24)

 

scree – a mass 

of small loose stones 

precarious

(This is also a found poem, found on Google; and an erasure poem, as I selected it from Google's text.)

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Slope (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 23)

 

easy down

not so easy up –

the same slope

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Hilltop (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 22)

 

after so long

a phone call from you –

this sunny hilltop

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Appalachians (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 21)

 

Appalachians –

ah yes, I’ve heard of them

foreign and far

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Cairn (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 20)

 

a cairn

to remember you –

no need

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Denali (NaHaiWriMo, Day 19)

 

Denali’s

glacial beauty –

pictured 

*

cold grandeur

across an ocean –

Denali

My responses to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Serac (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 18)

 

falling ice column

impedes glacier travel –

but I don’t do that

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Skiing (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 17)

 

skiing –

exhilarating

to watch

*

skiing –

good excuse

for gluhwein

*

skiing trip –

no reason to stop

hating the cold

My responses to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Seamount (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 16)

 

mountains rise

within the deep sea –

ancient fire

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Range (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 15)

undulating

long blue horizon –

Border Ranges

*

swooping 

from the range two eagles

ride air currents

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Alpine (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 14)

 

poor Al

pines for warm weather –

winter snow

*

winter trees

have no variety –

all pine

(OK, I might be getting a bit brain fatigued by now.) 

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Piste (NaHaiWriMo 2025, Day 13)

fell at once

tangled skis legs arms –

not my sport

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.

Pinnacle (NahaiWriMo 2025, Day 12)

 

‘Don’t climb this face,’

the locals said. ‘We’re sick

of finding bodies.’

*

seated, robed

female figure –

the east face

(I lived four years below a peak called The Pinnacle, in northern NSW, Australia.)

My response to the latest NaHaiWriMo prompt.