Riding Against the Wind

Being human and living life can cause emotional upswings or downswings in all of us. If you are lucky as you have grown older you have found the perfect place to help repair yourself. The one place where your mind runs free and there is no one to judge you on your thoughts so you can heal yourself from within. We all need that one place where we can ride against the wind.

Riding Against the Wind
Oh so lost, now riding my horse against the wind,
Above timberline to a place we both have never been.
My mind is so confused, my thoughts have caught fire,
Clear my thoughts – it is the high mountains I require.
Riding against the wind – somehow it is always good,
Wildfire of emotions of those thoughts I never should.
Wear my passions on my sleeve – always cause me pain,
All my life love and loving has driven me forever insane.
Seems like a life time of riding my horse against the wind,
Irresistible urge to run, sometimes I never know where it begins.
Surrounded by friends that don’t see life as I see it,
I am an old soul, not like most I have to admit.
Find myself seeking shelter of the Rocky Mountain high,
Riding towards the wind heavenward and closer to the sky.
Somehow I break all the rules that I never knew existed,
Trying to stay the course, but my heart and soul get twisted.
Now and then I ride towards the wind where the air is thin,
There are times I need mountain clarity to heal from within.
All my troubles, worries, depression are always self-inflected,
Riding against the wind above timberline I never feel neglected.
Oh so lost, now riding my horse against the wind,
Above timberline to a place we both have never been.
Kurt James
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Kurt James was born and raised in the foothills of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Kurt’s family roots were from western Kansas and having lived in South Dakota for 20 years, Kurt naturally had become an old western and nature enthusiast. Over the years Kurt has become one of Colorado’s prominent nature photographers through his brand name of Midnight Wind Photography. The Denver Post, PM Magazine, and 9NEWS in Denver, Colorado featured his poetry. Kurt is also a feature writer for HubPages and Creative Exiles with the article’s focused on Colorado history, ghost towns, outlaws, and poetry. Inspired at a young age by writers such as Jack London, Louis L’Amour, and Max Brand have formed Kurt’s natural ability as a storyteller. Kurt has published 18 books all based in and around the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Using the Midnight Wind Publishing brand, Kurt James novels, short stories, reference books, and poetry, are available in print or download on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Goodreads, and other fine bookstores. And a few shady bookstores as well. Kurt has 3 books that he is currently writing. The 9th book in his Rocky Mountain Series - My Name is Nobody. His 4th ghost town reference book, South Dakota Ghost Towns, Hauntings, Treasure Tales, and Other BS. And a western/horror novel - Devil’s Tower Spirit of Chiha Tanka. Kurt is a proud member of Western Writers of America.

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