Connie Pachecho Poet Free verse

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Longing To Go To Africa

Longing to go to Africa

Babe I know this is spontaneous
and we're just coming off a good food fight
but listen, not to the paradox,
let's go to Africa.
Wouldn't that be a poke in the night,
a dip in the Nile,
a sweet roll in the oven,
a swing in the jungle?
Listen babe
... think babe of all the fun 
... we'll be having.
You'll see,
I promise.
We'll leave the hotel occasionally 
and when we do
let's ...
let's please
see the safaris and rivers.
You must promise 
... and
to let me ride a tiger,
deal?
Good.
I must ride a tiger.
We'll do the Serengeti, 
I heard that's the beast,
home of the tigers
... for brave tiger riders like me
... hence I'll be your hero.
Can you see the cameras clicking on us?
We'll be quite the item
and get this, babe
we'll get you up there
on an elephant.
Doesn't that sound exciting?
I can see us now
in matching khakis and bandannas,
hair breezing in the wind,
out there on the grasslands
with the blue wildebeests, gazelles, zebras,
riding in tandem 
under the African sunflower,
baking our busybody. 
... And get this babe we'll be bonding
that's the main thing,
us catching jungle fever,
swinging from tree to tree,
branch to branch,
uncorking champagne under starlight.
... And
I would love to see you smile 
longer than the Tanzania
and happy like a giraffe,
longing to go,
longing to go to Africa.



4/18/17



10 placements-nothing again. A person can write so
indigenous to the topic, paint it vivid with color ... fun, humor,
excitement, and I'll even go so far as to say, more so than 
others-and the results, yes the results ... sniff of crap again.

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Doug Vinson April 19, 2017 at 5:33 PM Connie, I don't think you're just bored. Clowning around is fine (and I certainly do my share of that). There is a longing in you - don't deny it. : )

Debbie Guzzi April 18, 2017 at 7:56 PM poetic devices create the difference between poetry & prose. [prepositions are not capitalized in titles/ sentences require periods- lets is short for let us-let's] Light & love Connie Pachecho April 18, 2017 at 8:07 PM i'm so bored. this submit (like most of them) is for fun. maybe for admirers i do have. trust me i could care less of parameters,