Beautiful Ken...beautiful. Have you read "Woodswoman" by Ann LaBastille? It's about life in the Adirondacks in a hand-built cabin. Ann wrote two books, the second was "Return to Black Bear Lake." They are great reads and I know you would appreciate them.
This will make your poem easier to read:
Adirondack Soul
by Ken Mowrey
The streams are the blood that runs through my veins
The mountains are the medicine that cure any pain
Many seek fame, fortune and gold,
I seek just one more day in her beautiful hold.
Her strength is more powerful then mans lust of money and greed,
she fights through all of this and continues to seed!!!
Never would I had imagined such a magical space
would continue to grow in this time and this place.
The colors, the sounds, the smells in the air,
all touched with such emotion and undying care.
A well trodden trail, the flight of the hawk,
it speaks of great beauty without need to talk.
Words could never describe this heaven that lives,
it asks nothing for the beauty it gives.
There will come a day when to the other side I walk,
but through the creeks and the winds I will continue to talk.
Only in body will I be gone,
as the coyote, hawk and turkey will continue my song.
I was born here, I'll die here for this is my home,
there is no better place for a spirit to roam.
It is this magic that makes you feel alive and whole
and touches my heart and my Adirondack soul!
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