Post by AquarianM on Jul 8, 2004 at 7:07am
Key Talking...
Reading from The Book Of Florida,
Or is it the Book of Dreams,
We imagine to discover paradise,
Found in spectral sunsets,
Dreams of broken old bridges,
The yellow tang of Key Lime pie,
Sea food and palm fronds,
Maybe fried plantains,
Or lost beach-side in flip-flops,
A place in imagination for ghosts,
Ruins and water to meet the underside of our souls,
Just as we dream of the underside of the nation,
It may be a bigger deal to the poet in me,
But if I can get all of that,
Sitting reading the Mobil 2002 Florida travel guide,
Naked in a dumpy Atlanta motel room,
What grandiose visions will the true Keys bring?
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 04/07/2004
Author's Comments:
Tropical fever? (Two If By Sea poem 0005)
Reading from The Book Of Florida,
Or is it the Book of Dreams,
We imagine to discover paradise,
Found in spectral sunsets,
Dreams of broken old bridges,
The yellow tang of Key Lime pie,
Sea food and palm fronds,
Maybe fried plantains,
Or lost beach-side in flip-flops,
A place in imagination for ghosts,
Ruins and water to meet the underside of our souls,
Just as we dream of the underside of the nation,
It may be a bigger deal to the poet in me,
But if I can get all of that,
Sitting reading the Mobil 2002 Florida travel guide,
Naked in a dumpy Atlanta motel room,
What grandiose visions will the true Keys bring?
By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 04/07/2004
Author's Comments:
Tropical fever? (Two If By Sea poem 0005)