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Prairie Inkwells
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since 2002-02-04
Posts 13
Kansas

0 posted 2003-10-27 11:02 PM


Prairie Inkwells is proud to introduce a guest, Della Burch, who is offering up this poem for your comments and input. We are hoping that Della becomes a member of Prairie Inkwells.

~*~

Travels

You tell me of your trip to Vegas,
the noise, the lights, the shows;
the crowded days that never end,
the tables and the slots and
I hang onto your every word
and wish that I had been but
deep within I would not trade for
I was once in Nassau.

I devour your quest of New Orleans,
the dripping moss, the mansions;
black-grilled courtyards, bougainvillea,
Cajuns cooking fish and shrimp
and, late at night, gut-wrenching jazz,
Voo-Doo and the French patois;
but did I tell you of the time
that I went to Nassau?

In words, you show me San Francisco,
its cable cars and Golden Gate,
Haight-Ashbury and China Town,
the ocean pounding on the rocks,
days of warmth and nights of chill,
wharfs and vessels, artists’ tripods,
wild poinsettias and broken dreams and
one day I must relate to you
about my trip to Nassau.

Take me next to Athens, Greece,
with lunar-lit Acropolis,
goat-trodden shale and olived hills
and crumbling marble goddesses.
Of San Antonio I’d hear again;
the Alamo, awing still or
yet, Bavaria, its high, clean air,
the chocolate and the Alps.
I feed, enchanted, on your words,
but I once went to Nassau.

Nassau, shaking British rule,
blossomed like a huge hibiscus.
Ebony folk with lilting voices,
“jitney” buses, always late,
bongo drums, small dark boutiques,
night clubs holding back the dawn,
eaters of fire and limbo dancers,
the Straw Market, chalk-white beaches
sudden squalls, palm-filtered sun,
Bahama Mamas of lethal lushness,
wooden sidewalks or none at all.
My exotic list goes on and on for
I was once in Nassau.


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Bridget Shenachie
Senior Member
since 2002-01-23
Posts 1056
Kansas USA
1 posted 2003-10-28 12:48 PM


Hi Della!

First of all, I want to welcome you to the Prairie Inkwells and to the Poetry Workshop.
It's so good to see an example of your work here.

Your descriptions of places are so perfect for the armchair traveler and it makes me hunger to be in these places. Awesome descriptions.

Hope to see lots more of you and your writing!

Shenachie

Dr.Moose1
Member Elite
since 1999-09-05
Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA
2 posted 2003-10-30 07:41 PM


Della,
Indeed, welcome to Passions. Your descriptive writing shows promise of things to come. I am at a loss as to form, but being of the stodgy old school, that is probably a shortcoming on my part. Keep up the good work, whatever direction it takes you.
Doc

[This message has been edited by Dr.Moose1 (10-30-2003 07:59 PM).]

Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA
3 posted 2003-11-18 07:29 AM


This is wonderful, Della.... You put me in the "traveling" mode.  Actually - I DID do a little traveling since you posted this.  You must have made me do it...

Welcome to our workshop, poetess - Do hang around and share more with us, if you will...

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