Califirnia Dreaming

by Anisa Abeytia Yamani - Aquarius

California's coast line
cuts deep into the heart
of America.
Jagged and new,
it juts out
full of
exuberance
into the sea,
leaving New York City
far behind, in the past,
in the rubble 
of old world memories
that steal away the
future.

California's gold
population
rushes out, but
crummbles away when
it reaches the sea-
not quite able
to reach out in unison.
So arms and legs are
lost to the ocean,
only to try again.

"Those silly hippies and movie stars,"
clammors the old world logic of
Poland, Italy, Lreland, Germany,
not to mention the Duch and the English,
many still in their red coats.

Eureka!
They try
to find new wyas
in a new world
filled with
new people,
in
California,
where
the streets
are lines
with palm trees
and the 
roads
climb up
to blue
skies,
past the
horizon
to a place 
where
sleepy dreams
come awake
and sometimes
fall off 
into the 
Pacific.

Birth sign: Aquarius
Date created: 2000-08-23 01:00:57
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:42:38
Poem ID: 57363

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