Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

Photography

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Thunder

on the Mountain

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English Mountain, Tennessee

Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

Photography

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Sunrise

Cedar Key, Florida

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

Poetry

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Water, Steam and Ice

(Couplets)

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I am the contrails in the sky

Transporting your love to my heart-felt joy

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I am those rolling white riffles splashing

Across those ancient glistening granite rocks

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I am the warm tingling steaming massage

Sensate-ly refreshing your tired soul

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I am that energizing frozen cube

That cools that sweet tea you sip on our porch

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I am the main ingredient carrying

Life-giving nutrients to your keen mind

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I am the visible steam rising up

That prepares your scrumptious wild rice tonight

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I am those fluffy white clouds high above

That sponge down the dust into the earth

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I am that which keeps your Force Five afloat

So you can sail on to your newer dreams

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I am your frozened winter delight

Magical crystals spun during the night

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I am that drink your ravenous soul desires

Sprinkled grace, His most dear promise-d gift

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(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee~October 2, 2006)

Debora Short

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studio

Creative journeys...

Poetry ~ A toast to life

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And Magenta and Purple Danced

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... And Magenta and Purple Danced

To the Melody of dark Golden Winds

Kissing the edge of Shadows…

As if to say

I Dance in the light of life…
My brilliant Petals

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Encoded with Eternity…

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Should You

Choose

to cut

me

down
No

Matter…

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Certainly,

the Heart of Me

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Will always

Be

Dancing to that Gilded Melody...
(2005 ~ Bell's Island, North Carolina)

Debora Short

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Poetry

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Harvests Invitation

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Eyes, sparkling and fully engaged

Witnessing both the food

And the product

Winds blowing cedars scent

Oh, those so many branched places

That call and process

Words

Words that eye both

In mind

On paper

On forest

On those sweet Tennessee warblers

On that hawk that rests

On those power lines out front

On lovely fall wildflowers

On multi-hued maple leaves

On Joe ~ Pye Weeds and Goldenrod

And On those last morsels

Of Summers

Queen Anne Lace

Eyes of full intent

That harvest

In a blessed thanksgiving

All these offerings

Fond gifts of time

A Seasonal habit

Offering colors, last bits

Of summer’s very warmth

Sequels eternal replay

Engaged in spotlights eye

Bringing all to

Harvests’ so bountiful table

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(14 September,2006)

Debora Short

Photography

Early Fall Colours

English Mountain, Tennessee

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Wednesday, 4 ~ October

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Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative jouneys...

Original photography by artist:

Debora Short