1st Anniversary / Vintage Colorado Poetry / Poem of the Week / October 18, 2004

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First Poem October 20, 2003 Pike's Peak's Philosophic Burro / Eugene Field

Steven D. Schroeder is a Colorado Springs writer and editor.

Pikes Peak Obscured

Drive west on Garden of the Gods and half the city stretches out, a shantytown in the depression unrolling to the peak.                                       Cloud swarms storm down the slope in March's wind, outriders nearing timberline, the vanguard of invading nature trumpeting snow.                                But here a sign, one sentinel of many, bulwarks against white wolves.                                       Before you start your sedan sortie toward the snowstorm, red letters -- yellow-backlit -- block the intimidated mountaintop, spitting KING TACO into onslaught's face.                      --Steven D. Schroeder Copyright (c) 2004, Steven D. Schroeder