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INDIAN FLOWER

Naiveté and innocence interweave
         beneath her dark exterior.
And she continues to relate to me the woes of her friends.
 
Doesn’t she realize how beautiful she is?
Long, thick black hair caresses her lithe, athlete’s form.
Pure clear brown eyes pierce my mind
         and something in me cringes.
She must see right through my false identities,
         yet she continues her idle chatter of nothing in particular.
How could this child have been raised so unaware
         of her own elegant beauty?
To tell her might be to spoil her attractive modesty.
 
She looks down and lowers her eyelids frequently.
She does not take compliments easily.
Shyness becomes her.
 
Sweet lady, she is always being asked to speak up and fears her soft voice to be one of the countless faults she curses herself with.
 
I’ll stay with her for now, be her friend for a short period more, but she will outgrow me.
         Soon; I feel it
                  She will come into her own.
But I’ll always remember her as she is now: unspoiled, without conceit, shy and beautiful.
Written in 1975  Copyright © Catherine G. Tripp

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  • Home
  • About
  • Poems
    • Binary Shield © 2014
    • China Doll © 1974
    • City Sounds © 1982
    • Code Vision © 2014
    • HAIKU COLLECTION © 1976, 2016
    • Hair of the Dog © 2017
    • I Just Endure © 2014
    • Indian Flower © 1975
    • It's just there © 2017
    • Last Easter When I Saw Him © 1976
    • Lines on a Tiburon Ferry 2002
    • Listening to Amy © 2017
    • Mendocino in Bloom © 1982
    • Mine © 1977
    • Reflections in a Photograph © 1976
    • Road Musings © 1982
    • Starving Abroad © 1978
    • Taipei Day © 1979
    • The City © 1982
    • The Pain is Constant © 2013
  • Loan Goddess Wisdom
    • The REAL reasons for 2008 Meltdown
  • Short Stories
    • SOMA VAMP
    • Banking Stardom
    • Her Name Was Tera
    • Lake Sebring
    • The Making of an Empress
  • M. E. Pleasant
  • Performances
  • Diatribes and Deathless Prose