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Ski Writing

          Rocky Mountain Winter

             an autumn daydream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rocky Mountain winter:

a tale of snow and silence and beauty;

take the time to take a moment outside time—

 

Rocky Mountain skiing:

a ballad of wind and speed and powder,

or a ballet, against a backdrop painted by the gods—

 

Rocky Mountain mountains:

picture perfect, sculptures of ice and snow

crystal sawtooth summits under midnight blue skies—

 

Rocky Mountain memories:

gold-dust hours in a gold-rush town,

strolling through new powder down storybook sidewalks—

 

I wrote this short poem some years back, when I was living in my adopted Rocky Mountain hometown, Telluride, Colorado. It pretty well captures my pre-season daydreams of winter, just around the corner.