Fireflies in the great smoky mountains

The firefly season
Unannounced
Suddenly
Is here
With night time
Serenades of light
Winging from lush meadow grass
To highest treetop
Staccato measures
Syncapated beat
Shhhh!
Too bright for sound

Dissatisfaction

No excuse
With warm caress of evening
Air
And golden rays coasting
Over mountain
Shoulders
Reaching cooling meadows
Singing birds frantic with melodies
And repeating notes
a saw
Then a lawn mower
Replying in this stretch of a longer day
May
No excuse for sitting
Rocking
With any troubling thought
Choose a simple task
Do it
Night will fall

Horses grazing

When my heart of hearts
Dreamed there was a
Horse at my window
I looked out
And they were there
Grazing

Big creek trail great smoky mountains

Mouse ears falls a favorite hike from creekwalk inn bed and breakfast in cosby just 20 minutes from the trail head.  We saw our first trrilliums in full bloom.  Majestic midnight hole glorious in the early spring. 
Hiking with my best friend wilma jenkins who sold her ranch in arizona and is writing a history of the double circle ranch.

trilliums, Kephart prong trail

When trilliums burst
through forest mulch
and lift their dainty white
three handkerchiefs to catch
the tears of spring
so offsetting
no melancholy
just nonchalant and gay
celebrating
three's no crowd here

Living builds a vault around the heart
Not so much as protection
Just a time saver
No opening and closing of the door
At inconvenient times
To scatter focus
Or sense of purpose
Or whatever else might seem
More important or useful
Than undirected
Unfocused
Basking in the sunshine
With waves white with foam
Splashing over my face
Love

Happy Birthday
To my amazing 20 year old, on purpose daughter
Just remember, I’m on the beach loving you, playing
With no limits
Adoring you

apple blossoms

The bold etchings of
bonsai
outlined against a sky
strewn with mountains
rows and rows of apple blossoms
balanced on branches
bent with strength