Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Colors of loves
Loves come in different colors.
Yellow for John.
He was good looking man,
always surrounded by flocks
of young girls -
- yellow for jealousy.
Pale blue for Peter
who liked to travel
and was never home.
Blue for arriving postcards
with the pictures
of blue seas.
Blue for hope,
blue was good for dreams.
Love for Danny began
like little, pink, yellow
and blue flames
over the building fire.
The fire was growing
bigger and bigger,
turned red -
- and then there was
nothing left to feed
the fire into.
The furniture, the house,
the trees,
everything was gone.
I found a jewelry box
in the hot ashes
and walked away with a child's
hand in my hand.
There is no one love
for people who make
many mistakes.
They are more,
until they learn
the hard way.
There is an only one love
and only one man.
Love - one hundred dollar bill
exchanged for change
falling out of the pockets,
loose change in the corners
of my purse,
some in the valet.
This is why I pick
cents on the sidewalk -
- it's a good exercise -
and, maybe, among them
will be one lucky one -
- for love, luscious green,
fulfilling, nourishing ...
don't be a cow ...
Didn't you already have enough?
... chewing Spring grass
on the green pasture,
filling, dreaming, eating,
swallowing, regurgitating,
chewing on memories ...
Don't be such a cow ...
Come back ...
Self consuming flame of love.
I am back on the pasture,
eating green grass,
looking with big blue eyes,
thickly covered with eyelashes
into high blue skies.
Flick with my tail
to the side of my body -
- that was one busybody.
Copyright (c) Marie Neumann
Pottsville, 2011
Pottsville, 1/10/2012
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