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#RockyMountaineer Views

28/8/2017

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As we travelled, capturing photograph after photograph of the lovely scenery, I decided to write some notes about what I could see through the windows during our journey. I put these together to write a poem from my thoughts and observations.
 
Views From the Train. The first day.
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Stand up and admire
 The soaring presence
 Of Mount Robson.
Ethereal blue
Shimmers in the sunlight.
 White tipped topping
 Cascades down
 Like pure icing;
Frosting the
 Mountainous cake.
 
Tier upon tier
Of towering trees
Hug the train track.
Trees of leafy greens
Like a rich gourmet salad
Fresh and crisp
In the mountain air.
 
Wave after wave of green foliage
Creating a corridor;
Surprisingly varied
In their depth of colour.
Bedraggled undergrowth
Hides dark shadows
Lurking
In the tangled ground cover.

White water waterfall
plummeting rapidly
creating a filigree spray
of  intricate lace
Foaming  into
a transparent
​ice cool pool.

  
Red top pine trees
Thinly tall;
Dying, decaying slowly.
Beetle larvae
Leave patterned evidence
Of slowly, strangling
The living wood.
 
Dappled sunbeams
Radiate warmth and light
As they fight their way through;
Revealing a forest full of new life
A resurrection of beauty!

​
Sue Westcott (C.) 2017

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