Three Poems: Images of the Amazon

Little Kingdoms of the Amazon

In the Amazon

there are kingdoms

breathing, eating

roaming about

in perfect harmony

(insects and birds,

monkeys and wildcats

and macho black ants!)

that is why the

Amazon

is never quiet

it's those foot-steps,

moving all night

and all day--long!

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Notes by Rosa: Here are three more poems of the Amazon, and I can remember all those happenings, just the way Dennis put them, the excitment we had in the pond area with the big lily pads, and the pink dolphins, we never knew were there were, until we saw them; such things in the Amazon make it all worth while being there; and that lily pad, I could have had lunch on it I do believe, there were many of course.The Amazon is like no other world, a world unto itself. Rosa
Giant Lily-pads of the Amazon

Giant Lily-pads in the water!

Slim, green, one after the other

Hidden in a pond, somewhere

In the Amazon, a friendly place

Inches apart, they lie hot and lazy

On the waters, shapes looking

-- (all afternoon sky-ward for sun)

My wife is small, a Peruvian,

I'm thinking, she could fit on one;

That might or might not be to

Her liking

The sun eases: breeze comes

We have to back the boat out

I wonder if they've lived here for

Centuries [?]; like elephant ears....

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Pink Dolphins of the Amazon

She tossed water about our boat.

Splashed water on my throat.

She moves swifter than the wind;

The pink dolphins of the Amazon....

Swimming low, high, scouting the river,

Summoning whoever is nearby--;

My wife and I see a long arched fish

Pink--jumping like a spring:

Lifting from the water so all can see,

The beauty of her sleek and pink body.

And back down she flops, headfirst,

Onto, into the waters, kissing the top.

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