My Mountains

Surrendering to soulful disarray

along the twisted pathway to tranquility.

~Camp Quietude

#longing #october #goth #music #chills

Soco Falls, Part One

A double waterfall located on the Cherokee Nation near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Darkness owned

The months

Time froze

Entangled

With the heartbreak

Of a winter coffin

As I slumped

Into your recliner

Smoking your last

Cigarettes

Hearing your bones

Cry gratitude

For the morphine

I pumped

And remorse

For the lost years

Eyes of water

Unspilled

Beheld

The grace

In your unloved

Shadows

Golden leaf

Chill slain

Wings murmur

Sent to stone

Shorn

Last sigh

In an arbour

Of bone

Main waterfall at Soco, on the Cherokee Nation near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.

Clingman's Dome: Highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at 6,643 feet above sea level.

“Her deep and damp smile could feed the gardens on the edge of this town.”

— 15-word myth #85: Melissa / @azurestone9

days of misted grey

silence are free as trees rust

in the mountain's arms

#haiku #poetry