Mountaintop Cottage Studios

Mountaintop Cottage Studios ...a higher road that treasures a rich past,lives in the present and dreams for the future. Mountaintop Cottage Studios features the poetry, photography and artwork of Debora Short

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Poetry, 'Charleston Salt Flats'

Charleston Salt Flats

Periwinkle dusk cradled in meringue-d moon -
Beams with tinged sun-drops each echoing its own

Crooning –love for day’s sweet end, far-flung skinny oaks
And ocher-ed waves of spindly marshes dance in the

Salty drink, architectural perspectives paint
The gentleness of each sentry’s uniform

Tenderly embracing reflection-ed wetness
Slowly emptying the tendril-ed ribbon-ed

Salty streams outward into the great Atlantic
Wilds, divided sepias outline the punctuat-

Ing dance with kisses of our entwined enchantment
Charleston salt flats welcoming lovers hungry souls

(Celebrating Thirty Years of Love,
Charleston, South Carolina, May 17, 2008)

Debora Short

Poetry, "Spinning Wind"

Spinning Wind

Oh whom do you spin for spinning wind
In that pearl-ied-violet sky, do

You spin in candid play amusing
Those finely- drawn lemon- lime leaves?

A lovely compliment sketched
Subtle lines and colored inks

Hand and eye carefully re-
Constructing their dichotomous

Grace, do you spin soft humid streams
Honeysuckle-d charisma

To delight and inebriate
Those newly emerged white pea

Petals or do you seek to bounce
At knee newly fledged fauna

In the sycamore trees, Oh whom
Do you spin for spinning wind do

You simply tango in rhythm
With heady-scented wild rose, un-

Tamed sister soul, delicious
Filled blossoms waving with good cheers

Oh whom do you spin for spinning wind?

(Cumberland Gap, June 7, 2008)

Debora Short

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