Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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A puzzle
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]
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Oso
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2637
Registered: 8-29-2003
Location: on da border
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Mood: wait and see
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Sweet
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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bajajudy
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6886
Registered: 10-4-2004
Location: San Jose del Cabo,BCS
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Si, Se?or!
Gracias, Bernie
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longlegsinlapaz
Super Nomad
Posts: 1685
Registered: 11-18-2005
Location: La Paz
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<sigh> You do have a way with words!!! You should get bored more often! 
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Natalie Ann
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 2819
Registered: 8-22-2003
Location: Berkeley
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real nice, amigo, gracias
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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Capt. George
Super Nomad
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Registered: 8-21-2003
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too cool man! thank you!
\"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men\" Plato
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Bruce R Leech
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6796
Registered: 9-20-2004
Location: Ensenada formerly Mulege
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Mood: A lot cooler than Mulege
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Baja Bernie that is good the first time you read it . BUT every time you read it after the first IT gets better.
thanks
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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bajaden
Nomad
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Registered: 4-7-2005
Location: Ensenada
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Mood: vicarious
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Didn't think you knew me that well Bernie.... Well writen, he says with envy.
At a feast of egos, everyone leave\'s hungry...
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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Oso
From you, 'sweet,' is well--"sweet."
Thanks
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Barry A.
Select Nomad
Posts: 10007
Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
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Mood: optimistic
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Bernie--------
--------that pretty much captures it all----------------very well said, and I applaud you (and am a little envious).
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thebajarunner
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3687
Registered: 9-8-2003
Location: Arizona....."Free at last from crumbling Cali
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Mood: muy amable
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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
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Baja Bernie
`Normal` Nomad Correspondent
Posts: 2962
Registered: 8-31-2003
Location: Sunset Beach
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Mood: Just dancing through life
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Thanks
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.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Eli
Super Nomad
Posts: 1471
Registered: 8-26-2003
Location: L.B. Baja Sur
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Mood: Some times Observing, sometimes Oblivious.
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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
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