Showing posts with label North Platte Valley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Platte Valley. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 26, 2017


       Cotton Candy

Cottony fog hangs
In the river valley
As drive into softness
Enter another world

Silence in the ethereal light
Visibility reduced to a
Few car lengths, roll down
Windows to listen

Sound of approaching care
Wait, can I trust my ears
Then it appears as if
Beamed down from the Enterprise

Swallowed up quickly again
As I'm left listening
Before I pull out
Slipping silently cloaked onto pavement


About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet. (17-261D)

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Powerhouse

            Powerhouse

Concrete powerhouse
Long abandoned
Gothic and forlorn
Once brought power to the valley

Turbines abandoned half a century
Penstock turned to scrap
Foundations of operators' houses
Holes in floor to afterbay

Silent for a generation
Haunts of the wild
Voices of the past
Whisper in the breeze

Transformed communities
Power stepped up
Synchronizing communities
Altering power structure

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.