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

A morning view at Camp Quietude

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

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

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

Soco Falls, Part One

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

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

Morning at Camp Quietude

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

~Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

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

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

#longing #october #goth #music #chills

Days of fog before the hurricane here in the mountains

#mountains #blueridgeparkway #travel

errant leaf skipping

ahead on the gravel path

awaiting uplift

Surrendering to soulful disarray

along the twisted pathway to tranquility.

~Camp Quietude

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

Golden leaf

Chill slain

Wings murmur

Sent to stone

Shorn

Last sigh

In an arbour

Of bone

Eyes of water

Unspilled

Beheld

The grace

In your unloved

Shadows

days of misted grey

silence are free as trees rust

in the mountain's arms

#haiku #poetry

My Mountains