Colorado

I have posted this poem before, but wanted to update it with this gorgeous photo of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs taken by Justin Peterson with Colorado Mountain Images. He was so kind to let me use it here!

a love poem

meeting you:
a fateful breeze 
of mountain air 
on autumn's leaves

learning you: 
a golden burst 
of halo's glare 
on forest peaks 

knowing you: 
a quenched thirst 
of sparkling flakes
on glass-shone lakes 

loving you:
a blissful surge 
of lily's bloom 
on thoughts preserved

losing you:
a throbbing pierce 
of razor's edge 
on red rock's cliffs 

loving you:
a gifted kiss 
of soaring heights 
i reminisce 

By: Katy Claire Funke

It was a privilege to call Colorado my home for the last three years.

This beautiful state holds so many treasured memories for me and I will miss it deeply.