Baja Bernie - 7-7-2006 at 08:43 PM
This is what I do when I get bored.
A Puzzle
Wandering along the seashore
Smelling the sea breeze
Waves loudly crashing
A solitary hang glider
Like a raven
Riding the thermals
A motorcycle rider
Vision obscured with dust
Storming across a dry desert
A native mountain man
Eyes of a hawk seeing for miles
Surveying his domain
A tourist tied to the highway
Watching the shifting shadows
Flowing over tall mesas and dead volcanoes
Pilots high in the sky
Looking to making sense
Of the puzzle that is Baja
A lone hiker leading a burro
Hot and sweaty
Visiting isolated ranchos
Campers gathered round a fire
Comforting each other
Strange sounds in the quiet of the night
Used up old men sitting in a bar
Vision diminished by booze
Watching life pass by
People in the bays and coves
In palm covered canyons
High up in the wind and snow
Each one seeing a small piece
Of the wondrous puzzle
That is Baja
Bernie Swaim, January 2004
[Edited on 7-10-2006 by Baja Bernie]
Oso - 7-7-2006 at 09:01 PM
Sweet
bajajudy - 7-7-2006 at 09:05 PM
Si, Se?or!
Gracias, Bernie
longlegsinlapaz - 7-7-2006 at 09:10 PM
<sigh> You do have a way with words!!! You should get bored more often! 
Natalie Ann - 7-7-2006 at 09:50 PM
real nice, amigo, gracias
Capt. George - 7-8-2006 at 07:30 AM
too cool man! thank you!
Bruce R Leech - 7-8-2006 at 07:47 AM
Baja Bernie that is good the first time you read it . BUT every time you read it after the first IT gets better.
thanks
bajaden - 7-8-2006 at 09:42 AM
Didn't think you knew me that well Bernie.... Well writen, he says with envy.
Oso
Baja Bernie - 7-9-2006 at 07:43 AM
From you, 'sweet,' is well--"sweet."
Thanks
Bernie--------
Barry A. - 7-9-2006 at 10:33 AM
--------that pretty much captures it all----------------very well said, and I applaud you (and am a little envious).
thebajarunner - 7-9-2006 at 12:02 PM
You must have a new editor...
this is really good stuff.
And, you should share the one you sent privately a few days back, it too is worthy of all to see and enjoy.
ooops, you did say "not for publication" didn't you?
now the cat is out and you cannot put him back until you post....
jejeje
Thanks
Baja Bernie - 7-12-2006 at 09:28 AM
Thank you all for your more than nice comments.
I think the Nomad board represents everything I said with the exception of the native mountain man.
Doug, Thanks for allowing all of us to be and share our thoughts and experiences in and on the place we all love.
Eli - 7-12-2006 at 02:03 PM
Bernie, Thank You,
Of all the poems I have read by you to date, I think this one best expresses what you have been trying to pull out of your soul to share with us.
Saludos, Sara