Poetry from Thailand

Original poetry written in and about rural Thailand.

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Gold is Nature’s Final Hue



Roads here are on berms to check
flood water, and I’m looking back
at a vast openness while waiting
for my wife to return by van. 
I’m far enough away that it’s
hard to make out the man lighting
a line of fires in the distance to clear
a rice field.  It’s dusk and a high,
slate black cloud to the south is
like a cliff pinching the man
and his fires to a barely seen
line of trees.  Anticipation hangs
in the air.  The lusty fires blaze
with the color of pure gold.

FG 25 October 2012

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Frost was wrong.  Gold is not nature’s first hue, it is her last.  Love like youth is wasted on the young, no?  Weather here is not quite drop-dead beautiful, but she clutching her bosom crying, “I’m coming sweetie.  This is the big one.”