Shantelle's Hideaway

From the stony fields with lavender rising White butterflies alight atop each bouquet While speckled ladybugs frolic to aroma's flower Shantelle's hideaway spreads before the gaze Within her name blooms a friendly stillness Envisaged within the heathered rocks strewn To peruse upon such stunning tranquility And conjure placid songs it issues within Her gilded aurelian, flaxen curls course To frame her blanched, ceramic fairness The grace of limb and carriage pose and amble As the cottony swaying of its gentle grasses Our desired perfection seeking sequence in her image Eternally bequeath love, joy and gratitude For Inevitable kindness lights this humble path To the gate of paradigm that leads to Shantelle's hideaway March 11, 2020 Shantelle Poetry Contest Sponsored by Julia Ward