I would be the valiant vine,
the succulent vine of vanilla,
defiantly clinging
to your mighty, fissured trunk.
Climbing, climbing, reaching
for the buxomness
of your overflowing breast.
Proffering sweet perfume
from my beautiful wild orchid
and my sticky, chocolate beans.
I would be the intrepid monkey
clinging tightly,
with my long, prehensile tail,
to the suppleness of your limbs.
Gorging your cloying berries,
balancing on branches
as they bend and sway before
the envy of the east winds.
Pliable and plastic
as the latex in your veins;
durable as the duramen
in your spine and abdomen,
building bridges across cultures.
Nurturing a needy nation;
sustaining with the life-milk
from your overflowing bosom
and your silent forest wisdom
as you watch over your land.
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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