Hi, this will be my last posting here for a couple of weeks. I'm off to let some warm air caress my ageing bones. So see you soon.
MY
GREEK HOLIDAY.
Bustling
town,
Greek
warriors striding towards me
erect,
looking straight ahead
dressed
in traditional dress.
Skin
tight jeans, knee length Jimmy Chow boots,
ample
cleavage, displayed,
topped
with Prada sunglasses
and
Gucci bag slung over the shoulder.
Noisy
cafes, loud animated conversation,
no
hands, no voice.
Click
of dice, backgammon the religion.
An
array of coffees, delivered
to
background music born of a forced marriage,
traditional
Greek, rock and rap, Greek pop.
White
and beige apartment blocks
scarred
by long dark shadows,
set
ablaze in a scarlet fire
by
a fireball sun that seeks the sea,
creating
a firestorm across the sky.
Only
a lingering kiss with the sea can cool its ire.
Apartments,
villas, tavernas,
marauding
groups, two’s, three’s, four’s.
Sometimes
lying around in the sun,
sometimes
following you,
sometimes
howling at you.
Everywhere,
the street dogs of Greece.
Sitting
on my rock
On
the side of the mountain,
the
sun in my face,
not
a breath of wind, not a sound.
Ah,
this must be the valley
Where
the Gods sleep.
BONES (Adrienne Mar 8, 2015)
ReplyDeleteDo you ever think about your bones?
The way the support everything we do.
They break and they age and they grow.
Bones hold every story you've ever told.
From the time you broke your toe dancing to ice ice baby
to the time you wrote a new chapter.
Bones are everything we are
and everything we ever will be
Our bones are what's left behind
after we move on to the next life
Our bones will tell our lives stories.
The carpal tunnel from writing, painting and playing an instrument
these are all left behind
to tell the archaeologists we
were here
and we tried to show the world
we cared
about its
Bones
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Have a good time and take care of your bones!