Orchid-like, gold mimulus cling To blackened granite above the spring. Skyline mountain, a pyramid block, Marked like an Indian picture rock. Red and yellow columbines Flame beneath the sugar-pines. Green-white aspens, bended bows, Curved by heavy winter snows. Powder-sweet the flowers grow Between the timber and the snow. Polished, blue gentians, lapidescent, Startle Sierra meadows, quiescent. Finally wind will have its way With crystal dust and powdered clay. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CREDO by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON IMPELLED by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO CARMEN SYLVA (QUEEN OF ROUMANIA) by EMMA LAZARUS STUDY FOR A GEOGRAPHICAL TRAIL; 2. ILLINOIS by CLARENCE MAJOR QUI S'EXCUSE S'ACCUSE by MARIANNE MOORE |