Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

poetry

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Curling Respires

(couplets)

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Wispy calligraphy draws me into

The wintered blue that eyes and so lightly

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Veils her shoulders in fine–twigged taupe lace

Fair weathers bop softly near southern skies

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Drawn out curly-breaths send life to her clay

As if His chubby cheeks were blowing song

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Ethereal devotions to concept

Ancient voyeur for many new quill-ed

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Ones, their delicate nests now expose-d

Engineer-ings unique to their authors

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Transitory weavings for feathered

Nurseries- playpens of precious plume-d

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Three circle and play in her afternoon streams

Gliding peacefully in rays of salience

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At a distance, leaves impersonate

Bouncing about on boughs like tiny mocking-

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Birds in dappled light, obscured treasures

Dangling withered and dry high aloft

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Soon to be gently sent floating to her

Soft moss-ed-beds of fragrant red cypress

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Commingling whiffs trail in from heavens hearth

Warming contemplative lures to His love

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Debora Short

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(English Mountain, Tennessee November 13, 2006)