MAGNOLIA:

Magnolia, abundant beauty given to this name,

It´s colour, perfume, among all flora, the Dame,

Flowers dancing, beneath cascading waterfalls,

Painted in shadowed echoes, on old convent walls.

 

Blooms, dusted & powdered, upon old maid´s breasts,

Scented on lover´s pillows, where the sweet head rests,

Perfumed in old memories, where time softly lingered,

Played in forgotten melodies, upon keys, gently fingered.

 

In the creamy bones of dead loved ones, now long gone,

I search in memory´s cemeteries, where sun once shone,

Dredging tombstones in petals, where I daily go & seek,

 I find magnolias sleeping, upon my lover´s dead cheek.