Flights of Fancy

My horoscope said today

Let your imagination run away

It will take you to amazing places

so here follows on that basis....

I close my eyes and if I try

I'm peering down from the sky

watching the tides ebb and flow

several miles down below

I close my eyes and if I try

I am transported to Mumbai

breath in her colour and her spice

then off again in a trice

I close my eyes and if I try

I top the Himalayas high

Glimpse the heavenly peaks of snow

and onwards i swiftly go

I close my eyes and if I try

I am in Rome seven hills high

taste its beauty and history

then away to where i next will be

I close my eyes and if I try

I see the Ganges delta lie

bringing life to all that's dry

Then onwards I swiftly fly

I close my eyes and if I try

the Taj Mahal is now close by

Royalty in its splendour lie

and then I'm gone into the sky

I close my eyes and if I try

I feel my love my Spain

seeing mountain and her plain

only to take flight again

I close my eyes and if I try

I see my love stand nearby

I know now that I am home

never more this need to roam

CAROL SELVA

Surya's note: Please read a short introduction with a shorter bio of this poet in the earliest post of this blog. A constructive comment would be nice too.