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see the glory that exists


worship the sun's glitter on high cliff's edge

as free as the clouds that crown it in colors


shaped by oceans

that listen only to themselves


touch the earth you came from


for this is beauty

 and my god


 

From – Pain is Time

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Copyright 1974

Patrick M. O’Neil

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Full picture – Ridge line in the Sierras above the Palisade Glacier, Big Pine Lakes area, backpack in 2008