Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago

Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

she was a full
bodied cute boy
a thought
you might
not know
but as a girl
she wanted
to grow
nubile
passionate
sensual
into the river
of a mans
heart flow
she transformed
her body
like a beautiful
flamingo
pouted lips
curved eyebrows
eye liner eye shadow
a heaving chest
more to show
yes a diva presto
dancing like
a dream angel
on her toes
to gain her love
men came to blows
libidinous old men
lecherous lewd men
would not let her go
but she was searching
for a dreamer who
lived beyond the rainbow
within the silhouette
of a scarecrow
a wacko and a weirdo
it was him
her souls poetry
her shadow
his picture
she kept
beneath her pillow
but he was in love
with a woman
a whispering reed
in the land
of the pharaoh
free boundless
enigma -like
someone elses
sparrow



All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.