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Home On Mount Shasta
by Retta (Reindeer) Mckenzie → (All Poetry by Retta (Reindeer) Mckenzie)
  
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Flying overhead,
Looking down,
I see her white shoulders,
Capped in snow and misty eyed,
Wondering just what it is,
That draws me home…
The lovely trees,
So tall and bold,
Telling me stories,
Centuries old-

The long cold nights,
I spent alone,
Walking her paths
Of fallen stone…

Once she may have shook the night,
But now there is nothing to fight,
No warriors climb her mighty peaks,
Just travelers seeking a weary peace…

Here I was born,
And here I shall stay,
Find no reason to run away,
Though I leave to look around the bend,
I find my self back again,
To her harsh beauty I am drawn,
Watching the doe nurse her fawn,
Hearing the eagles scream in the sky,
Staring at the clouds with tears in my eyes…

My mountain shall ever be my home,
A part of my life to which I have grown,
So use to seeing and believing,
The beauty of her forests
She protects with her life,
Can’t even think of leaving…

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 Reviews of "Home On Mount Shasta"
Reviewed by Joseph* OneLight*® (Reader)
Reviewed on April 25, 2003
Beautiful write Reindeer! Thanks for sharing your mountain, your treasure, your home. ~Joseph

Reviewed by Bobbi Duffy
Reviewed on April 24, 2003
I've been to the mountain
I've been to the sea
I've been to the desert
Their beauty to see
And if you were ask me
or to give me a test
I couldn't tell you
Which I loved best
For each has it charmes
Its beauty and grace
I'm sorry that I can only ever
be in one place.

Loved your mountain, Retta, your imagery was fantastic, I felt like I was looking at it as I read the poem. Great Job, glad you're back.
Bobbi

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
hello...very very refreshing write....thanks for sharing this work of art...love n luck...BHUWAN

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Your poems are so refreshing Reindeer, and the beauty of your words a joy to the soul...Mount Shasta area is glorious!

Reviewed by Erin Kelly-Moen
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Ah, Retta, this is so powerfully loving!! I loved your descriptions! :)

Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
beautiful write
excellent

William

Reviewed by Dove (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Beautiful..AAAhhhh..Where the eagle cry on a mountain high...

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
luv it! excellent imagery...

Reviewed by Nicole Davis Vergara (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Ohhhh Rhetta how I too have missed you work and the lovely image filled journeys you take me on every time I read one...and this one is just a lovely as the person who wrote it indeed! So when can I come with the munchkin to Mount Shasta??? ;O)
~Nikki~

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
A beautiful mountain I bet
have never seen it
Enjoy your work Reindeer.....

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Beautifully done. Mt. Shasta is something t see.

Reviewed by richard poor
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
for a flatlander...i like this!!!
very good!!

Reviewed by Marilyn Seray
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Sounds beautiful. Lovely imagery

Reviewed by Russ Okamura (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
You command your poetry like that of the great mountains, majestic are your words! Very excellent write!

Reviewed by Mary Cannon (Reader)
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Such a beautiful write, the scenery welcomes
you as I've pictured here

Reviewed by J. Murphy
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
It appears our homes are not far apart--I'm in the Napa region. I like your neck of the woods too. J.

Reviewed by Rodney Bohen
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Retta,
Yes, when we approach softly the other gentle wonders of the earth about us in reverant fashion and form, she winks back at us affectionatly from her very heart.Keep etching and branding your heart to earth, great reward awaits you, yes, just around the next neck in time...
Rodney

Reviewed by Jill Eisnaugle
Reviewed on April 23, 2003
Beautiful Reindeer. I love the Mount Shasta region. So pretty.
Jill


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