Poems written in 10 minutes or less for The Poetry Takeaway.
Walking Off Mountains High (for Mountain Girl)
High up in the Andes
The Ayahuasca grows
Sacred shaman vine
Straining towards a sky
Pierced by peak upon peak
Higher and higher I climb
Clutching the sinuous branches
Wrapping them tight around my fist
Gasping breathing hard in the sparse air
Inhaling the heady fragrance of the vines all around me
The sweet smoke makes my head spin
As I burst through to the balding sunlit summit
Feeling that with every step upwards
I might wander off into the sky
And never come down
Which in retrospect
Is not a wholly unpleasant prospect
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