Monday, February 02, 2004
Sonnet to the Tropical Beauty
A moon new shone her tropic mood Where she joined her love of rood By love of seaborne custom worn She chose her man by Triton's horn No face more fair to stay her eye Her tapi sarong, ginger lei Did take her brother by the nigh In rush of palm leaf to lanai Balm breeze renewed her mauka side. A love and passion old to eye No maid of sun brown, amber hair E'er loved less true by native tare. And gave her soul all a melee Smiling nightward to her Pelee |