Eyes Of Water

Soco Falls, Part One

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

There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair.

~Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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

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

Surrendering to soulful disarray

along the twisted pathway to tranquility.

~Camp Quietude

Scenes from this year's seasonal home somewhere between the Blue Ridge & the Great Smokies.

days of misted grey

silence are free as trees rust

in the mountain's arms

#haiku #poetry

A morning view at Camp Quietude

errant leaf skipping

ahead on the gravel path

awaiting uplift

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