Sit back and enjoy the mountains and clouds. Listen to the wind carry calls of birds in trees, eagles in flight, echoing through the valley as you watch for bear, deer, foxes and turkeys. If you stay long enough, you can witness spring summon flowers from the soil. If you focus closely, you’ll hear ancestral voices welcome you to the great outdoors…
Poem
Do come, indeed
Never recede
When your spirit stirs inside
There’s much to see
In Tennessee
Smoky Mountains, far and wide
© 2024 Phil Perkins
This photograph was taken on a recent visit to Cades Cove, a verdant valley of the Smoky Mountains near Townsend, Tennessee. Prints of my photography are available in my gallery.
Fire on the Mountain, by The Marshall Tucker Bad (1975) – see lyrics here.
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