Is this a dream? A hallucination! An Illusion!
Is this Beelzebub's magic-mystic-mirage fusion?
Is it a paradise? Nirvana! Stratosphere! Heaven!
Am I in a psycho-physical eerie cloud seven?
I found mangoes, papayas, bananas, and limes.
Rose, lily, jasmine, plumeria, and anthuriums
Parrots, crows, toucans, turacos, antbirds, and manakin
Aren't all these enough to tell me that it's at home I'm in?
Crystal clear is the sea I see in calm wave-less motion.
That seems as though in eternal dispute with the ocean.
Changing colors like actors in a play, changing costumes
Immaculately clean and smells as though mixed with perfumes.
Grand twilight at the rising of the sun and its setting
Seemed classical painting of divinity projecting
I felt the flora and fauna fit my feelings so well.
I stayed there for a long time, forgetting heaven and hell.
*Image of The Anthurium by FDIN.
All for One
An admirable blend of Anthuriums,
Aligned nexus with Geraniums,
And indulging beautiful
Acts that's suitable,
As one or
All
Answer for
Add ons...mutable,
And commands the usual,
An upright award in the forums,
An admirable blend of Anthuriums.
2023 January 21
*2nd Place*
Writing Challenge - Andaree Form
~Constance La France: Judged 2023 January 25
*RZ & HMS.
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