Yosemite National Park, California
(photo by Jordan Pulmano)
(Photo by Casey Homer)
Waiting to-night for the moon to rise
O’er the cliffs that narrow Yosemite’s skies;
Waiting for darkness to melt away
In the silver light of a midnight day;
Waiting, like one in a waking dream,
I stand alone by the rushing stream.
Alone, in a temple vast and grand,
With spire and turret on every hand;
A world’s cathedral, with walls sublime,
Chiselled and carved by the hand of Time;
And over all heaven’s crowning dome,
Whence gleam the beacon-lights of home.
(Excerpt from The Yosemite by Wallace Bruce)
(photo by Casey Homer)
Vernal Falls
(photo by Cam Adams)
Down from the Heavens
I come
tumbling
a galaxy of falling stars
a million white-winged doves
love weaves a daisy chain
rainbows of melting snows
ice to mist
winging
singing to the craggy steep
leaping to my emerald deep
pool
cool in granite fold
I am the song of the world
a moment old.
(Photo by Nathan Pirkle)
(photo by Claude Piche)
A scene sublime is here disclos’d
Mountain and vale, with streams between;
A verdurous garden, far outspread,
With drooping woods of living green;
And the Sierras snow-clad crest
With all their plumy pine-trees drest.
The tourist, lost in wonder, looks
O’er mountain ranges white and vast,
Crown’d with the everlasting snows,
Swept by the fierce, tempestuous blast.
(excerpt from The Yosemite Valley by Isaac McClellan)
(Image by Casey Homer)
Beat! beat! beat!
We advance, but would retreat
From this restless, broken breast
Of the earth in a convulsion.
We would rest, but dare not rest,
For the angel of expulsion
From this Paradise below
Waves run onward and . . . we go.
(Excerpt from Yosemite by Joaquin Miller)
(Image by Christian Joudrey)
off the leash 
Beautiful photos and poetry!
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You’re recent posts on national parks are making me very happy and very nostalgic. It’s been ages since I’ve been to Yosemite. I feel a return trip coming on…
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Me too.
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Very beautiful images and loving continuity of words and phrasing!!💕💕💕
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Nothing can compare to the beauty of Mother Nature.
Thanks for the follow 🙂
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Lovely posy
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Simply gorgeous
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An excellent series of posts Ken. Sorry I missed them previously.
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Park of Emotions
Daniel Hivrenko
The silky Leaves gyrate and sail
The universe seems to prevail
It
grows inside me, spark by spark
The sublime Prospect of the park
The blue and glacial lake that lay
And in my mind, nothing to say
And through the Grove, the leaking light
Tis was but not, an enchanting sight
And the sierras snow-clad crest
With all their plumy pine-trees dressed
Mountain and Vale, with Streams between;
With drooping Woods of living green
The tourist, lost in wonder, gapes
The Panorama, now inscapes
The views, feat as a
remedy
This staggering Park, is called Yosemite
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