Amazon Queen – Revised | Jennifer Calvert Author

The sky sleeps

in the soft flow of night

The wind whispers under a cloak

of black and gold,

She glitters below the leaves,

of broad-leaved evergreens

Above the canopy, rain falls

Of turquoise hues

and silky moss

faerie orchids stalk

Her heart line like an exotic

capillary-flower

Etched, deeply profound

A kapok,

tendrils strangling its host,

leaving behind a haunted fig

A ghostly fog –
Sensually, night slips into dawn

Burnt orange

sunrise

She, the protector

of all that are gone

Singing a warrior song –

Dazzling Queen of the Amazon.

Words J.Calvert written 2016, revised 2017.

Jennifer Calvert Author