POSTCARD FROM LESVOS

GARDEN OF THE SEA

Margarita tends flowers

which bloom profusely

in freshly painted

sky-blue boxes

overhanging the beach

Parasitic pots

buckets  and shells spill

blood-red geraniums

down the lime-washed

boles of Almirikia trees

Roses toss their golden heads

on a scintilla of a breeze

as a  lace-edged turquoise sea

is busy, busy polishing her

jewel-bright stones

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At dusk strings of lights 

will wink above the white

marble tables as the last 

crimson rays lovingly caress

Margarita's garden of the sea