Follow that winding stream Around three great bends Up into the old forest And watch for the waterfall Careful where you step And beware what defends In a cave behind the falls Joining two stone walls Legend has when you can Hear a mountain lion yawl And all down the valley Its wounded cry extends Been nearly three generations Some good folks recall When the mighty great cat Was trapped by flood godsends For every night a couple weeks Terrible noises would befall And every year after year Whenever stream water ascends On stormy nights the ghostly beast Of Witch Cat Cave still calls
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Posted: May 2011
About this poem:
Inspired by Lacy's Cave.....thanks Odette67. This is an old legend from settler days of a cave behind a waterfall in the town of Bakersfield where an old Mountain Lion was trapped following a flood.
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