DREAM BEACH; NOON -Published Word is Out 2008

DREAM BEACH 13 NOON

We need not ever fear to remember midnight
The wind whips the ocean to a foaming froth
Gulls wander in the shallows
And seek to share the filamental shade
Of whispering casuarinas
Too hot for thirst
We lie like infants on the silver sands
Of tropical beaches
Do not swim, the warm water
Harbours venom
The mosquitoes rest and wait
In the denseness of hot midday air
The sun seems riveted in the blue shallow sky
The birds are quiet but in the fringing shade
The great iridescent butterflies
Flutter like half forgotten memories of dreams
Great creamy flowers blossoms open out
And yawn
It has never been cold
We are entwined as lovers on the indolent beaches
Waiting is all – the burning sun will slowly navigate
The shadeless skies
Come evening it will set to horizons clouded glory –
Another wonder of the end of days
Lost in the memory of the noontide heat.



© 2008 Annie Otness