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Book Signing: For Jayn and Katherine

One day we’ll all write books
then retire to a tropical island
to live without shoes on our royalties
pick fruit off the trees for breakfast

We’ll buy fresh fish wrapped in newsprint
but won’t read the news on Iraq
We won’t have TV, won’t have to listen
to songs of the 60’s being used to sell products

One day we’ll live without clocks
sit in rocking chairs on an oceanfront porch
We’ll write our memoirs on the backs of postcards
and forget how to drive cars

After swimming like seals all morning
we’ll sip tea at sidewalk cafés
sign autographs for tourists under sky-blue umbrellas
We’ll eat pastry but won’t get fat

We might pose for the paparazzi
with hibiscus flowers in our hair
and while reporters from the mainland ask for our opinions
we’ll be writing short stories on our café napkins

At sunset we’ll dance on the beach
loose like kites without strings
until we land like sailboats docked at the harbor
and dream free verse under the stars

~ Colleen Redman 8/05

Comments

Well we once talked about retiring to the Bahamas for our winters....
I'd have to find a way to pack the dogs and cats but the gas prices and heating oil bills are taking my tropical winters away!!!

ME, TOOOOOOO!

:0)

Well, the more the merrier on this one. This poem came from the very real experience of signing my book for these two girlfriends. We each write and we have traveled together. I wanted to write this sentiment on the page, but it was too long!

Are you illuminating your version of "Under the Tuscan Sun"? From the mountains of VA to the beaches of somewhere? If writing is this lucrative, then I chose the wrong profession.

LOVE THIS!

Hi Colleen...

I really like this. Sounds more like a the beginning of the second week in 'heaven' to me.

And just in case someone wonders...under these living conditions I would be more than willing to wear a hibiscus or two in my hair.

Thanks for sharing...

Great thoughts and sounds like an ideal way of life. Let me know if you find that pastry without calories. (smile)

What a lovely aspiration...so dreamy...

That sounds absolutely lovely. :) Hello from Michele's! *goes to read a bit more before taking her leave*

Sounds good to me, Colleen!
I particularly would like this dream to include Chocolate that doesn't make you fat and is in a bundant supply! (lol)

btw: I didn't watch the Red Carpet stuff (Taped it on NBC) cause I was watching "DEADWOOD" and then "BROTHERHOOD"....It was the Deadwood finally!
I don't think it's right for them to be mean about the dresses and such until at least the next day---so I agree with you. And it's just someone's opinion...! I LOVE all these "EXPERTS"...Deliver us from the experts, please!! (lol)

Oh, count me in on this one, Colleen.

With a little selective vision, sounds not far off your now. :)

How[ do you know my dreams so well? I would love to do all those things - starting now - but I have no writings to live off the royalties...boohoo.

what an absolutely lovely poem! Thanks for sharing :-)

oh, Colleen...how blissful!!
I like the sound of that. :)

have a good night!

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