Thunder

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The tremors on a tropic shoreline shake

Exotic flowers, (farther in the land

Of jungle) on the island.  Petals quake

In sensitivity.  Along the strand

By ocean waves the trembling causes shells

To shift.  The earth shifts abalone, conch

And periwinkles.  Shamans casting spells

Are weaker though than love I have for you

Which tropic, too, is full of warmth and power.

No shell or shore or bloom can be as true

As my devotion strong as Buddha’s flower.

  The shores and peaks of Bora Bora tell

    Of love, a tidal wave in roaring swell.

© Phillip Whidden