My poetry about Magical Places

Lines written at the beach on our 2011 Summer solstice family vacation:

I've held tigers and rode camels
I've sailed through the Bermuda Triangle 
and down the Nile.

   

I've wandered through the Mayan 
ruins of the Yucatan in
Mexico for a while.

I've climbed up pyramids
and into tombs in Egypt's
Luxor, Saqqara, Giza, and Dashur.

I've taken three daughters
to the monkey temple
In India's beautiful Jaipur.

  

I've slept upon a cruise ship,
in hotels overlooking ancient temples
and in a palace.

I've stood looking through the hole
in the ceiling of Rome's Pantheon,
now a church, alas.

I've walked up Teotihuacan's
avenue of the dead
with my eldest daughter

to the pyramids of the moon and sun
then we ate in a cave restaurant
there after.





I've ate dinner looking into 
the face of the sphinx,
many a night.

I've had breakfast 
with Chichen Itza's mysterious
Observatory within my sight.



I've watched the sun rise and set
over the cities of Rome, Cairo, 
and New Delhi.

I've watched the sun shine on my six kids
playing, every summer solstice,
in the sea.



I've got still more 
to do and view on
adventures to come yet.

But I've no postponed joy, 
no dreams deferred 
and no regret.






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This is a poem I wrote BEFORE I was able to start traveling at age 35.....



So many sights that I've always wanted to see
Magical places I must someday be
Flower colored and scented Hawaiian Islands
With great volcanoes smoking above their sands
As drummers and dancers do beckon 
The rising and setting great golden sun
Ancient Stonehenge's megaliths standing eternally
In their fairy tale land of castles and pageantry
The fairy folk's secret trails of old
With leprechauns guarding pots of gold
Mexican lost cities in the jungles lay
Waiting for me to find them one day
Egypt's pyramids sphinx and Nile
Have stood waiting for me quite a while
The ancient Gods of many a place
Have yet to gaze down upon my worshiping face
So many wonders I've yet to behold
So much I want to see before I get old.


 

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