blushed and dimpled cheeks
curly and wavelike hair locks ~
a valentine's gift
Place: 3rd
All the complicated thoughts
on your face in the mirror,
their distortions whine
like a drooping branch in the wind,
while the drops of rain grow heavier,
louder,
against the bedroom window,
bringing life back to a raging drought,
preparing the grasses
and corn
to grow like the wind
into a wavelike climax
of late summer.
My name is Pérola, born among thorns beneath steely rocks
By the great Bay, where its sons harvest fish for the government mint against their sweat
The teacher points at my eye for its vile afloat
My grandfather, a serviceman and healer
Many queues for his touch of healing hands far and wide
His sons are warriors of the land walking on his prints
They widely spoke of their virtues against my decadence
My mother's father
His poise of character lives on decades later
Mentions of his nobility in imperfect man
His daughters, my mothers, have lived in dignity and valour
Yet they disdained me an illusion of imperfection
I swim in the lake of rebel
I laugh at the trouble I germinate
Look, they are sweet as lime, hotter than Indian paper
I sit quietly at the bay where I am summoned
Wavelike broken glasses
Showers me, piercing every inch of my skin
I brace my agonising pain
My name is Pérola,
A stone. A precious stone.
Am not easily broken
A valuable stone. I cannot be camouflaged
I have a different story to tell
Unique in every season, both spiced and crunchy
My name is Pérola, born among thorns beneath adamantine rocks
Reading in the bath
Yoga with my cat
Hot tea in an old mug
Tree shadows cast from above
Squishing soil between my toes
Tomatoes warmed from the summer glow
Getting a glimpse of nature dancing
Romancing --
Snowflakes twinkling in the moonlight
Carnal rhythm raw and wavelike
Audible
sounds
swimming
throughout
smoothness
...moving
dripping
refractions
bouncing
off lies
contrived
...propogation
volitionally
absorbing
waves
tinkering
acousticly
drumming
pathways
hearing
resounding
why's...
compliantly
audible
sounds
reflecting
losses...
hearing
outside
lines...
unbroken
mining...
slipping
under
surfaces
...muffing
reality
beating
...flooding
...drowning
...undermining
wavelike
reverbeating
liveliness
...surfacing
beneath
audibly
sounding
rhyming
...timing
broken
acoustically
lying
Sparkling light on windblown surface
Sun reflection motion purpose
duck's and seagull's bathe in gold
welcome breeze invite it's fold
Willow hang dangle yonder shore
watering flower on edge adorn
music so peaceful lulling effect
gracing wonderful beauty respect
Thin pillowed cloud float sky blue
nearly mirror lake wavelike dew
wind surfers paddle boats sun loungers all
enjoying the gift as golden ray's fall
Cry's of the gull's other high pitch shrill's
nearby splashing as the children thrill
different shade's of green and blue
those different shade's of me and you....
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