Bora born
Sunshine on water _
Mooloolaba spit the goto place for those
workers united on family holidays.
From everywhere the place they come for Christmas
new year spreads, under tents inside caravans
for three weeks where parents learn to cut some slack.
In '59 four brothers plus, meet up for
four gens to slip into one silent image.
Their kids unmasked will seek summer sun, water
born a reflective affair, where skin damage
flirts with boiled water poured on precious young skin.
Family ties with kids burnt to a crisp retire
down past mountains housed in glass, famed for their names.
The stop go traffic is usually checked by those
vanguards' whose tyres play basketball down the road
an unbalanced lot, harmonics do the rest.
The log cabin tea house set within grassed in
pines, always a must do rest stop homeward bound.
Cream on scones with strawberry jam hard to beat in
a swiss chalet styled building devoid of snow
or gingerbread men who eat the furniture.
Blackstone bound their kids feel the heat with no songs
sung out of windows where wind fills open mouths.
Calamine lotion nor a father's neglect
helped steal the pain as blisters join up along
arms future proofing skin damage for old age.
- O -
© 2nd feb 2023 _ Ioan James Daniel
Author's notes and media are here.
workers united on family holidays.
From everywhere the place they come for Christmas
new year spreads, under tents inside caravans
for three weeks where parents learn to cut some slack.
In '59 four brothers plus, meet up for
four gens to slip into one silent image.
Their kids unmasked will seek summer sun, water
born a reflective affair, where skin damage
flirts with boiled water poured on precious young skin.
Family ties with kids burnt to a crisp retire
down past mountains housed in glass, famed for their names.
The stop go traffic is usually checked by those
vanguards' whose tyres play basketball down the road
an unbalanced lot, harmonics do the rest.
The log cabin tea house set within grassed in
pines, always a must do rest stop homeward bound.
Cream on scones with strawberry jam hard to beat in
a swiss chalet styled building devoid of snow
or gingerbread men who eat the furniture.
Blackstone bound their kids feel the heat with no songs
sung out of windows where wind fills open mouths.
Calamine lotion nor a father's neglect
helped steal the pain as blisters join up along
arms future proofing skin damage for old age.
- O -
© 2nd feb 2023 _ Ioan James Daniel
Author's notes and media are here.
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Sunshine on water _
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