Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

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~ Dulcimer Psalmody ~

(couplets)

An earthly intone graced with Spirit’s Songs

A guiding goodness gently leading souls

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With most enchanted ears to greener life

And steeper royal hills adorned in bands

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Of His morning light, translucencies heart

Songs of mourn-full farewells, a leading peace

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Cornerstones of love built with hands of faith

Strumming safe passage to glassy blue seas

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As promise-d, Jordan’s shore storms no more

Uplifting saplings to taller sky spaces

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Indigenous mountaintop hardwoods, gifts

Of curly maple ~ shapely hourglass frames

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Resonating loves humble thanksgiving
On frets set in black walnut songs of praise

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Vows so sweet, so dear, so bountifully

Graced, a communities path to Home

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Challenging those who find themselves with Him

At that well to recite His joy-filled song

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While treading upward paths sweetly scented

Rose seeds newly watered sprigs of true life

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Each treasured lone tree with roots growing deeply

Sings songs, bathe-d in His un-ending love

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Dulcimers earthly hymn of higher hearts

Tenders gifts rising up in melody

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(Rocking and Strumming on the Mountaintop, TennesseeOctober 11,2006)

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Debora Short