Short Blue Ridge Mountains Poems

blue ridge mountains soar
lifts me up from my lowest
breathtaking delight...

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Blazing wild meadows,
Cherry blossoms, budding green,
Cascades of flowers!
Spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains
is a gilt orange season.


Written on: 3/6/2022
For: Springtime Beauty Tanka Poetry 
Contest
Sponsor: M. L. Kiser...

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Regina
Compassionate, Kind, Responsible and Conscientious
Daughter of Steve and Norma, niece, wife, cousin – only child
Lover of Nature, Animals and a good pizza
Who feels tenderness, melancholy, creative
Who fears rejection, drowning and death
Who would like to see Israel, all the states, Jesus and…
all those family who have gone on to heaven
Resident of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina
Riddle...

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The morning sun.
As the morning sun pecked over the ridge.
In to the valley, you could see the fog and the morning dew burning away.
Dew from  the new spring leaves.run to the ground.
Down in the valley, the cows were grazing on the fresh cut hay.
The sun brightens the valley with each ray.
The blue ridge mountains stand so tall in the background as the morning sun 
rises above.
Just another day in the morning sun...

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~
across the sapphire
blended with emerald hue
ridges rise in praise
~
clusters of pine trees
birch, poplar, oak and locust
merge to give sweet peace
~
bright flowers grow wild
dancing with fresh moss and fern
inspiring jubilation
~
waters run gently
across smooth, gray and brown stones
soothing the spirit
~
every plant worships
from where it’s rooted in ground
that brings true comfort
~
...

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Granny, hunched over the woodstove –
I smell fatback frying in cast iron,
Scents of morning in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Along with hazy mists hanging across them,
Parting for the sunlight as it makes its way up
Over the hills that surround every heart
Living out life on hardscrabble roads of old times.


September 11, 2019
Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Ironic Zink 


Author's note: This is my first try with this, so I'm terribly uncertain if I got it right :)...

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Sometimes I am in doubt
about why I am here

Here amongst these mountains
certainly not just anywhere

The path seemed to just effortlessly 
want to open itself to me

The draw was powerfully magnetic
So I surrendered and let go 
of the part that was hectic

Often now as I drive over a hill
and I look into a luscious green dale
my feelings of joy give me little chills

My eyes water and my breath is taken away
by the beauty I am surrounded by
every single day....

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