Smaller Waterfall At Soco On The Cherokee Nation Near The Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina.

Clingman's Dome: Highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,643 feet above sea level.

My Mountains

Days of fog before the hurricane here in the mountains

Things one can see during a sunset drive in Western North Carolina on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Scenes from this year's seasonal home somewhere between the Blue Ridge & the Great Smokies.

days of misted grey

silence are free as trees rust

in the mountain's arms

#haiku #poetry

Main waterfall at Soco, on the Cherokee Nation near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Golden leaf

Chill slain

Wings murmur

Sent to stone

Shorn

Last sigh

In an arbour

Of bone

Surrendering to soulful disarray

along the twisted pathway to tranquility.

~Camp Quietude

Darkness owned

The months

Time froze

Entangled

With the heartbreak

Of a winter coffin

As I slumped

Into your recliner

Smoking your last

Cigarettes

Hearing your bones

Cry gratitude

For the morphine

I pumped

And remorse

For the lost years