Pilchuck's Pearl

~ The Lonely Bide ~

Ken James McLeod

Mt. Pilchuck Summit View © Ken James McLeod

Come climb me this wintery day ---
I hear the mountain say.
' Bove the forest, cross the snowfield to upper slope
Huff and puff, step after stomp, thus I lope,

Yonder horizon speaks with bluish-gray fractured peaks
Forested valleys resembling gardens planted in rows like leeks,
And meandering South Fork Stillaquamish River far below
Volcano Baker, Glacier Peak, and Rainier look ready and willing to blow.

Frozen icicles hanging from granitic (feldspar & quartz) rock
The Lookout perched a top the summit block,
Waves upon waves over Puget Sound which ferries ride
Olympic Mountains ponder glorious scene with majestic pride,
Now hoveld here at mountain top . . . counting hours by the lonely bide.....

KJM

(McPilchuck)

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