Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

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Roaring Forks, Tennessee

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Roaring Forks, Tennessee

Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

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ROARING FORK, TENNESSEE

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Photography

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

Photography

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"Late Fall Eye Candy"

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Debora Short

Prismacolour Drawing

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

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Prisma Colour Drawing

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"The Mockingbird"

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Debora Short

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

creative journeys...

poetry

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Conservation's Heart

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That coal

Once your

White-bearded

Mountainous delight

Is now a

Film rendering

Of shadow’s grime

An end-rattling

Of a hard-working

Good-hearted

Family man

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Debora Short

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(Mountaintop Cottage, Tennessee~ August 20, 2006)

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

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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)

Poetry

Mountaintop Cottage Studios

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poetry

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I'll Start Out with a Fine Chablis

~oOo~

I'd be honored to sit

With y'all

I'll start out with a fine chablis

Civil-ed Spirits

Are so very important

Don't You agree?

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Kindly, make mine

A cheese and

Shrimp, dear sir

I do love those G.R.I.T.S.casseroles

Yes sir, a side of conch salad

Would be lovely

As would

A teeny slice of your mothers lovely

Sweet potato bread

And tall glass of unsweet tea

Please, dear

And thank you

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Now down to business

Gratuitous you say?

I beg to differ, dear! ! !

Have you forgotten D-Day?

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Debora Short

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Note:

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'In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the anti-American sentiment and negativity, we should remember England 's Prime MinisterTony Blair's words during a recent interview. When asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America, he said:
'A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in... And how many want out.'

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Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

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1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.

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One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.