North Carolina Home Sweet Home

A poem of the North Carolina I wouldn’t want to lose

North Carolina

Awake to a painted morning sky

Filled w’scent of magnolia and Carolina pine

Reveling in a sun-drenched landscape

Of blossoming hydrangea and myrtle, crape

With azalea blossoms and fragrant rose

Wild jasmine and hyacinth perfume kiss th’nose.

Climbing honeysuckle n’bumblebees

‘Neath sheltering oak and towering maple trees

Mountain to coast steeped in mythic lore

Where ev’ry native road leads to the shore

From homes of native red earthy brick.

A gentle, misty Southern wisdom flows thick

Wreathes the Grandfather’s Mountain spaces

Teaching unspoken lessons for the ages

Life is not hurrying -- but sav’ring

In this place… this home ever unwavering

God-kissed from misty mountain to roiling shore

This North Carolina home sweet home we adore.

Reviews

[James]

I love this. As a North Carolinian, who has lived in the mountains and on the coast I can really relate to every word.

Thanks,

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you very much.

[Roland Petrov]

Lovely ode to North Carolina, a state I have yet to visit. I live in California, and since fracking causes earthquakes, when I do visit NC I should feel right at home.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. I hope NC will not be overtaken by the greed-fueled drive to decimate our landscape. But, I encourage you to visit the state while it’s beauties are still intact.

[Woody]

gosh, you could make a fortune working for a travel agency :) breathtaking description in verse. this comes to enrich my meager knowledge of the American environment. I mostly know NY through movies.
lovely write Momzilla.

[MomzillaNC]

NC is an amazing state, uniquely blessed with landscapes to appeal to just about any mood or taste from mountain vistas, to rolling hillsides, to seaside landscapes, to windswept dunes, to lowland rural scenes, and from metropolitan cities to farming communities, to sea side villages.

This poem, though, was inspired by the efforts to expand fracking and coal mining and allow off-shore drilling. It’s a nightmare to think of that horrible devastation to the landscape and ecology.

Did you know that the Carolinas are native to the Pecan? In fact, most North American species of pecan were developed from the North Carolina Cape Fear Pecan which still grows wild and to profusion in NC. The Venus Flytrap is also native to NC. Red wolves, black bears and bobcats are among the animals already at risk. The Pamlico Sound ecology of our Outer Banks is already facing severe climate change issues that may see the Outer Banks gone in my son’s lifetime.

[Woody]

so sad really. the whole world's gone mad. I'm quite aware that the older I get the more cynical I become. I'm frankly not holding my breath for the near future.
thank you Momz. I've learned quite a few things here abouth NC.

[MomzillaNC]

If you have the chance to visit NC, you must visit Raleigh (the City of Oaks) the OBX (and Kittyhawk), Grandfather’s Mountain, and the Biltmore at the very least.

[Woody]

oh boy! visiting the States is such an elusive dream. who knows? one day perhaps :)

[MomzillaNC]

:) :)

[Pryde Foltz]

Sonorous and splendid. You make me want to move.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. It’s a beautiful place with environments for almost any taste, from the mountains and foothills to the OBX (Outer Banks - barrier islands) and coast and to Sandhills. And they want to increase fracking and take up offshore drilling while killing clean energy initiatives. I saw a picture of a fracking site; they showed images of the landscape before fracking and after -- it’s a horrible devastation to the landscape and ecology.

[Sami Khalil]

Been there. A gorgeous and charming state. This poem does it justice....:).......
Excellent as usual

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. It is a gorgeous place. This poem was inspired by pictures of fracking sites, and the thought of what those sites mean we North Carolinians are being forced to sacrifice. It’s just horrid.

[Sami Khalil]

You are right. You are welcome....:).......

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Your vivid descriptions brings this beautiful scene to life in my mind. I love nature.

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you.

[Dr. Wood ?]

lucky you......but is Roiling a word? I am so THICK

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks. As for “roiling” it’s from the word “roil” the definition for which is: verb (used with object) 1. to render (water, wine, etc.) turbid by stirring up sediment. 2. to disturb or disquiet; irritate; vex: to be roiled by a delay. verb (used without object) 3. to move or proceed turbulently. According to Dictionary.com

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i certainly relate to this and for two reasons....what family i have left lives in NC...

and because i crossed that walking bridge between two peaks on Grandfather Mountain.

and your view is very much as was that view. Breathtaking...

j.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks. I’m glad it touched something in you.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yep and you understand why it did...

God, was i stupid that day walking across that bridge...40 mile an hour winds and me so afraid of heights.

[MomzillaNC]

It's always breezy up there, but yeah… that's a bit much! LOL