Going to Colorado

This is a piece I wrote for the Led Zeppelin Lovers Group while listening to the song, "Going to California.

Going to Colorado

 

Mixing emotions and searching a heart

Leave yesterday and tomorrow to start

Feeling and everything begins with me

Lost light now found; I set me free

 

Wandered the land, spent it all two times

Fortunes ignored I lived my life in rhymes

I set me out on the open road as hope does roam

Mountains to the west the land called me home

 

Peace there somewhere I vow now to find

Campaign for unity while I seek like kind

Feeling and everything begins with me

Lost light now found; I set me free

 

Shifting my energy close to the speed o light

Taught my heart to see; now it thinks right

Life gently whispers its song now a vibrant glow

Clarity lightly bubbles within awakening a know

 

Understanding dawns in the darkest of places

The past comes around; I with warm embraces

Feeling and everything begins with me

Lost light now found; I set me free

 

Author's Note

Going to Colorado with no aching... in my heart

Reviews

[Jack...]

Another beautiful poem written about a beauiful place.

Oh to climb those mountains tall
Then mine eyes shall see it all
And when this perfect days is done
I'll gaze upon the setting sun

Colorado, land of beauty as majestic as your words.

[Veronica Chandler]

You are too kind and I wonder if you can hear me blush! Thank you for the inspired verse. The mountains are a terribly fierce, an incredibly frightening place, but if you climb her heights the reward is unspeakably wild beauty. I had to climb up to a height of over 9,000 feet to discover that wild orchids call the mountains home. I could never have imagined such a thing.
Thank You for your generous reviews!

[Jack...]

You are very welcome Veronica.

[Hayley]

Great rhyming scheme! It really is lyrical. I think you hit home the wandering sense in this piece, like the reader is roaming until he or she finally finds home..

[blakjassy]

even if i did not have the explanation for the inspiration behind this it still would have been a fantastic read! The repetition and rhythm of this poem gives it a lyrical quality.

[Siobhan Welch]

I love this piece!

"Feeling and everything begins with me
Lost light now found; I set me free"

I'm going to keep those words in my pocket and deep in my heart, for their truth, gentility and power. Thanks so much!

[Helpless]

very cool twist :)