Afternoon showers

Author: by Peleps Planebu

Description: A romantic poem, popular perhaps less for its content than for its history: the author, the Earth aspect Peleps Planebu, leapt from the deck of his ship in full armour and sank to the bottom of the Western Ocean, after learning his wife had run off with a Cynis fop.

Contents:

having walked across the Isle,

over copper ridged mountains

bleeding shades of green

from giant aloe and breezing palms,

we landed on the satin Western sands;

sacred and unknown to the world;

protected by the crescent of sea caves,

lava walls and fresh falling water.

in the mornings we joined

the dolphins for swim in song,

teasing them with our crude bubbles.

they teased us with endless smiles

and chases; spinning in a ballet

of innocence.

in the evening we dined on

mountain apples and guavas,

drinking wine from the nearby stream,

later, falling into a blanket of stars

and balmy wind

as the midnight waves lulled us to sleep.

but,

it is the afternoons i remember,

dear;

the place where the Rock

was worn so soft as to invite

our naked feet and bodies

to stand tangled in a sculpture

of wet skin and love beneath a blazing sun

and the showers of sweet water.