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My Vacation
by Jeanette Cooper → (All Poetry by Jeanette Cooper)
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My muse has neglected me lately and I've gone through one of those dry spells when words just didn't want to form into poetry. Yet, I wanted to share my joy of the vacation I took--the first in a while.


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My Vacation
 
Miles and more miles we made plans  to travel
Tires singing on dry and rainy wet roads
Soft listening music playing on the car radio
Setting our expectations to vacation mode.
 
From sunny Florida to Savannah, Georgia
A two night stay amidst a court of moss covered trees
We strolled through the squares throughout the city
Viewing quaint old mansions; reminded of afternoon teas.
 
Then back on the road, our travels would take us
To Cherokee, North Carolina, nature at its height,
Mountain peaks protruding through cloud banks
Shades of blue sharing the sky; what a magnificent sight.
 
Did some gambling in the casino built by Cherokee Indians
Toured the quaint little shops filled with souvenirs
Enjoyed the restaurants in the valley of the mountains
Nature’s beauty so magnanimous as to bring awe-struck tears.
 
Three nights in Cherokee, the hub to places all around
We traveled through the mountains to Pigeon Forge
The ride nearly frightening with all the sharp mountain curves
Where cliffs fell hundreds of feet into a deep gorge.
 
Gatlinburg, Tennessee was my favorite city of choice
Where the balcony from the motel room
Hung out over a gurgling rock-strewn stream
I felt the glory of nature—and a total absence of gloom.
 
Then the wonderful trip came to an end
Time to go back home to the routine of daily life
Working on my book, enjoying my gardening
Thanking God for every day he gives me
that is free of strife.
 
© 2009 Jeanette Cooper
 

 


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 Reviews of "My Vacation"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on August 7, 2009
DONE SO WELL ...WITH PHRASES, IMAGERY AND RHYME ALL BLENDING TOGETHER NICELY IN A STRONG SUPPORT OF YOUR THEME. ENJOYED. THANKS FOR SHARING AND GOD BLESS YOU. JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Lois Christensen
Reviewed on July 25, 2009
Pigeon forge and gtlinburg etc are favorites of my second cousin and her daughter who live in Georgia. They go their several times a year.
I was at that casino you talked about.
Intesting trip you took, beautiful SC and all and Georgia.
You put it in interesting words too.

Reviewed by Mary Patterson
Reviewed on July 5, 2009
Dear Joyce ,Thanks for sharing your trip with us.It took me back to last year when we all went to Tenn. The mountains of Ga, NC and Tenn are beautiful and pristene. Unfortunately we didn't stop in Cherokee. We spent a week in Pigeon Forge and the surrounding area.It was wonderful. Savannah sounds wonderful !..I have had a dry spell of writing also ..Hope you had a nice 4th . Its nice to get away , but there is no place like home!..Blessings ...Marygrace

Reviewed by Jerry Engler
Reviewed on June 24, 2009
Your descriptions took me back to a time when we were a young couple with a new son, and I was stationed in the army at Ft. Gordon, Ga. We made sure we visited all the sites including Savannah with the azaeleas in full bloom, and the Smokey Mountains of the Cherokees. Thanks for taking me back.....Jerry

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila
Reviewed on June 20, 2009
Wow, sounds like a wonderful vacation! I felt like I was taking the trip with you. Very nicely penned Jeanette.

Anna

Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on June 18, 2009
You have shared your experience very effectively via your verses, Jeanette. Thank you. Love and best wishes,

Regis

Reviewed by Michelle Mead
Reviewed on June 16, 2009
I felt relaxed just reading this, so I know it was relaxing and wonderful for you- thanks for taking us along for the journey.

Reviewed by ~ H (Reader)
Reviewed on June 16, 2009
Yes indeed this does sound simply wonderful, blessings, Holly

Reviewed by Sheila Roy
Reviewed on June 16, 2009
Jeanette,
I love the wording you chose for the tires on the road. Sounds like a relaxing time. Hugs,
Sheila

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
what a wonderful time-I went to savannah one--i remember the ocean and the spanish moss-it was amazing to me and i wanted to bring some home--once in the car, we discovered it was full of little bugs!!!

Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Sounds wonderful sweet lady...keep smiling OK...Hugss

Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Great write, Jeanette; I am long overdue for a vacation! Well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D

Reviewed by Dawn Anderson
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
A lovely vacation ended...and a beautiful life now returned to.

Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Great description of your vacation in poetic form, Jeanette. Well done.

Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Jeanette,

Thanks for taking me along, if only in my mind - wish I was with you! :) Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Sounds like many visitors would like to explore the South as you have and marvel at its beauty as you have so aptly described. Now that your batteries are charged maybe that reluctant muse will come back and move your pen once again as it did in this marvelous descriptive poem.

Reviewed by Joyce Bowling
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
What a great trip my friend, should've come on up to Kentucky, I'm only two hours away from Gatlinburg. I too love it there we are planning a trip sometime this summer. Next weekend my sister and I are going to the northern part of our great state and spending the weekend at Shaker Village. I am very excited about it, the inn that we are staying in has a history of being haunted. I'm glad you enjoyed the mountains of North Carolilna I love to got Cherokee as that is where my ancestors were traced to. I always feel at home in the Smokeys...much of where I live looks like the mountains there. It was good to read your wonderful work again, feels good to be back at the den and posting again. I am anxious to buy another book from you for my summer reading, not decided which one yet...but will before the weekend is over. I will have two new books out within the year...Faces in the Mountains, and a children's book A Path of Stitches...I am very excited about both, for now loving the summer vacation at home relaxing and enjoying my garden and writing here at the den. Great write as always my friend, enjoyed!
Blessings from Ky.
Joyce B.

Reviewed by John Turner
Reviewed on June 14, 2009
Sounds like a wonerful vaction. You were travling in my part of the world. Very much of God's creation to see


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