Queen Of The Jungle

Queen Of The Jungle
© Surazeus
2024 11 23

Though evening gloom veils trees in quietude 
I gaze in limpid pool of your heart 
where words of joy we share gleam bright as stars 
that guide us to our shared liminal space 
during initial stage of our romance 
as we kiss under wisteria blooms. 

While Sylphus in short loincloth of wolf skin, 
draped in wisteria and willow leaves, 
dances around limpid pool of desire 
with rakish puissance of jaunty disdain, 
he almost escapes gravity of Earth 
but tumbles into arms of Sycorax. 

Eerie caw of the hyacinthine macaw 
echoes in groves of mahogany trees 
as pale-skin Sylphus with bouncy blond curls 
twirls on tall smooth stone by the limpid pool 
reflecting silver sky of diamond eyes 
while Sycorax watches with loving gaze. 

While Sycorax plays haunting melodies 
on long flute carved from cocobolo wood, 
Sylphus weaves coronet from eglantine, 
rosemary, lavender, and berry vines, 
then crowns large red-skin woman with black eyes 
queen of the jungle full of sparkling sprites. 

Embraced with passion in the misty vale, 
Sylphus and Sycorax make love in beams 
of moonlight glowing in the limpid pool 
where turtles glide past purple-cap mushrooms 
and toads sing beauty of the universe 
till their bodies flash with glow of the stars. 

Black boots crush fragile flowers and fruit vines 
when Captain Bruno Silva from Brasilia  
barges into grove of their secret home, 
curses at his son Sylphus with disgust 
that he fathered half-breed mutt with that witch, 
then aims rifle to kill mother and child. 

Leaping on spritely wings of Ariel, 
brave Sylphus places his body as shield 
guarding spirit of lush Edenic land 
from exploitation of commercial greed, 
so his father growls with rage and retreats, 
plotting other ways to possess rich hills. 

Traveling with thousands of refugees 
to escape gangs terrorizing their towns, 
Sylphus and Sycorax, with new-born child, 
cross the rugged roadless Darien Gap 
to find better lives in the Promised Land 
picking peaches in bright orchards of Georgia.