BLACK HAWK - The Mountain-Ear would like to thank everyone that participated in our annual poetry contest. We have shared your original work in print and online during the month of April. Each participant will receive a complimentary...

Wind from the western mountains bit into my skin, through my thick winter coat. A heavy snow shone in the sun and covered sidewalks, streets, cars I shoveled our cars and then the sidewalks. I shoveled beyond my own yard because neighbors had...

Shut up you assholes I’m singing Verse 1: High in the mountains, late at night Where the air is clear and my mind is too I write these songs with a hook so tight I revise the melody till it comes out right.. Verse 2: Then I play my art to...

There’s nothing quite like the sight of the Colorado mountains An uninterrupted frontier of geological marvels Standing strong for thousands of miles The Colorado skyline becomes a part of your identity The distant snow-capped peaks take your...

Fumbling back to Gold Hill along the Switzerland Trail.  Getting back in touch with myself, a path I knew well.   I was on a path of healing and my heart went reeling,  oo a new place,  but now I'm...

She walks in shadows against the night,  her dark coat and dark curly hair camouflaging her movement She hides low in stairwells and doorways, looking over here, over there, using her training. Most women are afraid to venture out alone on...

Sordid sea, Wax the lazy beat. Sink these words fast. Please, woman, swim. Pant on the water's edge, Atop the flood's tongue. If I fall behind, I'll ask the Sky, To take language from me, And let him write the verses. Clouds instead of...

There are two energetic forces at play during this evolutionary cycle. One is fueled by the energy of contraction as it is tearing down the old paradigm and the other is fueled by the energy of expansion as it is creating the new...