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Booshway
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These Mountains are My Home

From the black rock country of the Columbia, across the misty mountains along the
Spokan, up the Dearborn to the Missouri and the Great Falls
These mountains are my home.

I have traveled many miles, years,
lifetimes it seems.
From the Great Falls to the Grand River
These mountains are my home.

Across the Desolate Plains,
Into the Badlands and to The Sheltered Valley
I have traveled, buried companions, buried friends but all along my Spirit Soared
Like the Eagle high above
These Mountains are My Home

Down the windswept Plains
Across the Flint Hills
Along the Brazos
My senses long for the sweet smell of ponderosa, spruce and fir.
My feet ache for the soft ground and sweet beauty of the high mountain meadows
For the Mountains are my Home

The old yellow horse nudges me awake,
His low nicker telling me that it is time to go
Together we saddle up and ride
The mountain horse and I

Each footstep, each day brings us closer
Closer to the Great Shining Mountains
The horse travels on eager
Longing for the sweet mountain clover
For he, like I knows
The Mountains Are my Home

Across the Llano Estacado we ride
For we are beckoned on, We trudge on and on
Across the sand and windswept plains
Off in the distance we see Sangre De Christo
Along with the La Plata mountains
For the Mountains are My Home.

The miles fall behind us like an unwanted burden
Up we climb higher into the sagebrush and juniper covered mesas
For the Mountains are My Home

I hear the call of the Eagle
My Spirit Soars,- floating high on the wind
Up above the Staked Plains
For the Mountains Are my Home

Dan'l Hickham

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Booshway
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I can smell it, feel the wind, n taste it, nice, very nice
took a jorney n never left the room, now thats good wrinting!
 
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Factor
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I like that. Very fine use of blank verse, a favorite of mine.


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Booshway
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Very Very good...I am packing for the outdoors!! LOL


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Booshway
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Thanks glad you like it


"But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it." Bear Claw Chris Lapp
 
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Factor
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Mighty fine, Dan'l. I had a yellow horse once. Seemed like I was riding along with you.

Fiddlesticks


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Booshway
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I like it. Can't write without being a thinker.


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Booshway
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Thanks for all the compliments and PM's I posted another one - hope ya guys like it.


"But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it." Bear Claw Chris Lapp
 
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Greenhorn
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I can smell the fire,hear the horses on a foggy morning,feel the stiffness of old bones rising from a night on cold ground and the ache of pinched feet. Great job,you took me there.
 
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Greenhorn
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I am merely agree with buckskin.It is really picturesque and notable..
horse back riding tours
 
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Booshway
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The part about the Llano Estacado brings back lots of memories from when I was 18yrs old and rode that trail.

Regards, xfox


The forest is a wilderness only to those that fear it, silent only to those that hear nothing. The forest is a friend to those that dwell within its' nature and it is filled with the sounds of life to those that listen.
 
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