Written: March 05, 2024
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In a colorful garden where nature blooms.
At your call, I rise tall and dulcet in red looms.
My flowers are trumpet-shaped and clear.
I am a Hibiscus, an iconic flower, comely dear.
Akin to Eden, I bedizen earth with an exotic zest
Birds, bees, and butterflies join to sip my digest.
A burst of hues, lambent views, in a yard of sate.
Wildlife dances comely by the scene, full of cate.
My time is short, for I fall soon after I bloom.
Above my grace, my life doesn't cease in doom.
My petals hold peculiar cures beyond compare.
My teas and pills ease pain and pressure, so rare.
Elegance is the blue of the ocean,
ageless paragon's heartbeat in motion.
Never calm, but ripples and hoary froth;
enigmatic creatures that feel it's wroth.
The waves beget in outcome underscores
Its thirst for helpless endless sandy shores.
Its sheer breast resonates idyllic sound
and cool scent of briny seaweed earthbound.
It merges to rising blue horizon
under shadow clouds do not bedizen.
Melting dusk closes with a snug twilight
artlessly dissolves completing dark night.
When the sun nestles into the horizon
I ponder whether ‘twill be my last sunset
Glorious display in splendorous bedizen
Surely, the most beautiful I’ve seen yet,
Dipping low ‘neath the shimmering sea
Across the bay from old Puerto Vallarta
I can’t think of any place I’d rather be …
Not Majorca, not even in old Djakarta.
The western sky turns orange and red
With streaks of yellow running through
While the sun obediently lowers its head
Emotions rise; my darling, I think of you.
I long to return to the Mexican Riviera,
To watch the world’s most lovely sunset
The bay sparkling like a diamond tiara,
As peaceful and calm as I’ll ever get.
Written October 8, 2022
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