Rising pasture as if viewed from angel flight <br />A mind-blowing beautiful East West imagery <br /> <br />The central topography high up on the hill <br />To left and east amazing views, hard wood forests <br /> <br />Mature soaring and stately red maples, buckeyes <br />Black cherries, silver-bells, pignuts, red oaks, hemlocks <br /> <br />Several hundred feet below a snaking Powell <br />River gurgles pristine over to Norris Lake <br /> <br />Monumental Cumberland Mountain Chains in full <br />View, just over those peaks views of old Kentucky <br /> <br />The peninsular surrounded in Tennessee <br />Valley Authority’s glistening assignment <br /> <br />Remote, isolated, secluded and gorgeous <br />Multicolored green quilts lay far out beyond <br /> <br />Revealing one gray and weathered century old barn <br />A distant farmhouse’s chimney sends out kisses of peace <br /> <br />Amazing graces to our country’s history, Indians <br />Of past hunted noble buffalo and became <br /> <br />Cast away savages sent away from sacred lands <br />Fortune seeking immigrants slowly worked bands <br /> <br />Of great covered wagon teams in Westward dreams <br />An animation filled in spirit and courage <br /> <br />Sometimes catalogued property of Kentucky <br />Both Grant and Lee captured the Cumberland Gap <br /> <br /> Prized the ability to see great distances <br /> Into wilderness, both raw pain and grand beauty <br /> <br />Intermingle in ancient earth, a warriors’ path, <br />A settler’s hopeful promise, a rich hunting ground, <br /> <br />A perilous place of adventure, a Union’s grace <br />All steeped in an awe inspiring beauty <br /> <br />(Hoping and Praying for this place in Tennessee <br />December 29,2006)<br /><br />Debora Short<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/kisses-of-peace/
