Poetry

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Poetry

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Dust

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A lovely hand-tatted

Lace filled with

Devoted affection

Her creative artistry

Lilies graced tiny birds

Swirling in the clouds

Above…

Gifts of life-loved

Tiny knots tied

With threads

Of distant

Contemplation

Woven

In a

Room illuminated

With only an old

Hand-painted

Kerosene lamp

Both now lay

With care upon

A mahogany

Dinner table

Lifting off that

Special gift

I discover

More lovely patterns

Of her

Dear soul

Now housed

In my heart

Of distant past

~*~
(Home in heart, Tennessee ~August 4, 2006)

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Debora Short

Prismacolour Drawing

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Prismacolour Drawing

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Blue Porterweed,

Monarda Puntata,

and

Hummingbird

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By Artist: Debora Short

Watercolour

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Watercolour

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"Mountaintop"

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By Artist: Debora Short

Prismacolour Drawing

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Prisma Colour Drawing

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Hummingbird

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By Artist: Debora Short

Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

photography & poetry

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Evil Wears A Shock Collar

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The animal growls

Menacingly

Continually lunging

Behind the invisible barrier

At my frightened

And blind chocolate lab

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Hurrying to pack

This trips memory

I shiver in a

Ninety degree drive
Twenty hours round trip

Every other week

Living out of suitcases

Leaves me feeling disordered
I.N.T.J.s are seldom

Good captives…

The exception, I am not

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Reading to pass the time...

I am struck by:

“Never shall I forget those moments

that murdered my God

and my soul

and turned my dreams into ashes.”

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I think of the neighbor

Who electrifies

His yard to keep in

A rottweiler
And shoots at

Nutrias with a bb gun

For entertainment
And then,

I understand

A bit better

Wiesel’s

“Night”*

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(May 31,2006~Somewhere in the Smokies)

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Debora Short

published: http://www.abovegroundtesting.com/ July 2006

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Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

Photography & Poetry

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Sunset ~ Bells Island, North Carolina

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Love Bathed in Red Tea'd Skies

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Offering bits of life to the nearly

Dead, a love bathed in red tea-d skies

An office of tremendous importance

Deserts on foot battling heat and soul’s thirst

Oasis’s flange- d palms and dates wave in dusk

Now, silhouetted people-d forms masked grey

Neither, black or white, journey’s midpoint

Just an indeterminate nation state

A-waiting, Love’s merciful tenderness

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(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee~ September 8, 2006)

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Debora Short

Poetry & Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Creative journeys...

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III

~ 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