Clingman's Dome: Highest Point In The Great Smoky Mountains National Park At 6,643 Feet Above Sea Level.

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

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

A morning view at Camp Quietude

Things one can see during a sunset drive in Western North Carolina on the Blue Ridge Parkway

Eyes of water

Unspilled

Beheld

The grace

In your unloved

Shadows

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

Surrendering to soulful disarray

along the twisted pathway to tranquility.

~Camp Quietude

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

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

Soco Falls, Part One

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

days of misted grey

silence are free as trees rust

in the mountain's arms

#haiku #poetry