Cool wind with apology
I love this poem. For me, this is about the prequel novel “Crimes & Impunity in New Orleans” that I want to write, that I have started, but have not been working on, except for an occasional note here & there. I wonder if one day I will be taken in by the memory of you, New Orleans, the memory of your scent, your allure, your inability to reconcile with yourself. I hope that day will come soon.
Thank you, Pleasant Street, for this beautiful poem! ;-)
Peace with love & justice,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
When the winds shift
next day after a storm
a cool wind (with apology)
I can smell you from over the water
Please take me home
keep my feet on solid ground
There is no guarantee
that the dirt won’t shift
and all this we built might crumble to bits
but I am finding it hard to trust the breeze
flighty and self-centered
You make a fool of me
my dignity lost in the air
debris caught up and flying about
with your smell
the woods and rain that you live in
feeding my thoughts each day
waiting for them to propagate
watching for the moment
when seed becomes brain-child
when the scent of you and the juniper
are impossible to resist
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