Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys..

~Poetry~

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Son Kissed Love Letters

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Common American Ravens

Sailing gleefully on

Temperate afternoon breezes

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Soaring Black Walnut Trees

Casting soft shades of peace and purpose

While swaying in pregnant blossom

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Slender Fairy Wands

Waving in, for a show off landing,

Those adorable acrobats,

The Carolina Chickadees

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Rushing waters carrying

An ageless white flower

Rolling foamy and softly away

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All blowing Son ~ kissed

Love letters

And delicious song

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To me!

~
(April 26, 2006)

Debora Short

Photography

Mountaintop

Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

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Original Photography

By Artist

Debora Short

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Water~Lilies

Coinjock Bay, North Carolina

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Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Poetry - Haiku

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Sunswept Silence

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Upon canvas dreams

Sun - swept silence

Whispers sweetest desires

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~2005 ~

Debora Short

Photography

Mountaintop

Cottage

Studios

Creative

Journeys...

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Original Photography

By

Artist:

Debora Short

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Hatteras

Lighthouse

at

Sunset

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OBX, North Carolina

Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop

Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

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Original

Poetry and Photograpy

By Artist

Debora Short

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Winter's Snow

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Unending woe hotly wails its

Song to

Justice’s all hearing ears

Sending winter’s untainted gift

Gently bleaching all bright

Mercifully dusting

Augusts’ fiery abode

In purest translucencies

Of cooling white

Love’s extraordinary comforter

Softly encasing

Domicile’s sorrow

Exposing only

His footprints leading

His beloved

To those most healing heavens

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(Mountaintop Cottage,

Tennessee~ 31 August 2006)

~~~

Debora Short

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published:

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Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

~Poetry~

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Love Scales Whistling

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Tea kettle laugh-en

Hot Water chort-ling

Bubb-ling Boil-ing joy

Occupational

Love scales whistling

Serving savor-ed smiles

To their garden faces

(Mountaintop Gardens,

Tennessee~August 9,2006)

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Debora Short

Prismacolour Drawing

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative Journeys...

Prismacolour Drawing

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HUMMINGBIRD

and

PINK FLOWER

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Original Art

By

Debora Short

Poetry for America

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

~Poetry~

Long May She Fly, Our Red, White and Blue

May …

Our Brothers and Sisters

Enjoy these thy gifts

Of OUR labor, love, and blood

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ICONIC SYMBOL of AMERICA,

LAND OF THE FREE, THE BRAVE

THE

PROUD HARD-WORKING

SHOULDERS THAT CARRY SO MANY

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May …

Our Brothers and Sisters

Enjoy these gifts

Of OUR labor, love and blood

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FREEDOM OF SPEECH

FREEDOM OF RELIGION

BASIC HUMAN DIGNITY

FULL BELLIES, CLEAN WATER

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READING BOOKS,

AND LEADERS of their OWN CHOOSING

GIFTS NOURISHED WITH THE

BLOOD OF OUR MOST

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PRECIOUS FRUITED

GOLDEN GRAINS

ALL GROWN IN VESSELS

OF FAITH, LOVE and RESPECT…

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May …

Our Brothers and Sisters

Enjoy these gifts

Of OUR labor, love and blood

*-*

Debora Short

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(THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN, TENNESSEE

July 6, 2006)

Poetry for America

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

~Poetry~

Freedom's Dearest Treasures

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Saturday dawn brings misty memories

Life-long friends are we, Jay and Joni, Les

And I, standing up for one another at

Our weddings now near thirty years ago

Today, our combined dear and gorgeous

Three, each too have become wonderful friends

Dawn takes us to that seemingly endless

Wall of polished granite, the kids at

First, quietly walking several yards out

In front, high-school-ers, now, too, cool to

Walk with us, slow-ly we read each inscribed

Name on that near endless polished wall

Carefully stepping over memorials

Old tattered love letters, yellow roses

Well loved, cherished teddy bears

And those deeply heart-felt infectious tears

Inscribed bravery, our nation’s blood

Iconic symbols of freedoms very love

Real crosses now carried in so many hearts

Reflecting tear-pools of our union’s soul

A family’s selfless and courageous gift

For a world in need of an ever-lasting

Peace, a great journey’s potent reminder

That quietly whispers love to the very

Deepest seats in each of our grateful souls

***

Debora Short
(Freedoms Treasured Memory, Tennessee~ 9 September,2006)
(Note: Thank You for reading my poem, 'Freedoms Dearest Treasures.'The poem's setting is located within a memorial garden in Washington DC. The Garden honors our nations fallen heros, those Veterans who have gone to fight evil in the name freedom.')

Prismacolour Drawing

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

Prismacolor Drawing

GOLDEN EAGLE

By Artist

Debora Short

(There are a very limited number of prints available

kindly, contact me for details.)

debora.short@gmail.com

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

~Poetry ~

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The Watering Can

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And, what of those

Petunias gracing

Your new deck

Would they not die

If your hand

Did not carry

His water to

Feed their beauty

~*~
Debora Short

~~~~~

(August 3, 2006)

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios
Creative journeys...

~Poetry ~

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No Wake Zones

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Night’s hazed bridge

Points to the unearthly-ed

Sky cantina stare-ing

Like a dreaming halo-ed solace

Slicing water’s shore

And steadily churning homeward

While life declares

Past fears to

Moon’s

Calmed soft face

Shedding Water’s passage

At last to

Those no wake zones

~

Debora Short

( August 19, 2006)

Poetry - "At Sunrise"

~Poetry~

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

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At Sunrise

Quietly entranced

Insects chatter ceased

And bird-song begins

Tea cup sweetly scenting

A table set for morning-prayer

Out on that upper-deck

Porch-swing

Gently rocking barefooted

Night’s gown trailing

Eastward on the mountaintop

Edged in God’sPrettiest and brightest lace

A precious light beacon-ing

Yesterday’s mortal souls

To His glistening promise

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Debora Short

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(August 29, 2006)

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Published:

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