A First Line Prompt
Red Lanterns
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
They swing in the breeze, they dance and then freeze,
Red glistening balls say cheese, play yo yo and tease.
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
The butterflies flutter in, the bees swarm in,
Their honey they churn in, their lips sugared in
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
Arched rainbows above them, midnight stars cover them,
Spring season blossoms them, summers in hands toss them.
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
Poets are inspired to verbalize, lovers flock to romanticize
Children fly through to chastize, their pets follow to energize,
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
Coronated princesses in dreams become temptresses,
Songbirds in high spiritedness transform it all into seductiveness.
Outside the city where the pomegranates grow,
Red lanterns hang where green orchards glow.
April 18, 2016
For Julia Ward
A First Line Prompt
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Balveen Cheema
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