Love Poem: Cotton Tree
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Written by: Keith D Trestrail

Cotton Tree

All is bright, and I betwixt God and you,
  the kookaburra is in the willow,
and honeyeaters in the honeydew
  flitter as I lay your breast and pillow.
You are my morning and evening star,
  sweet inveigler to the unpracticed heart -
girl, all I need is to be where you are
  and never know what woe it is to part.
So we are in our beguiling sublimed
  by a divine ordinance or blessing,
but visceral love, like a woman’s mind,
  keep all mortal men eternal guessing.
Kid, you mean and are everything to me
and I do love the stars in Cotton Tree.


       Written: September 1997


*Cotton Tree is a little enclave
  in Maroochydore, Queensland.
  Our unit was the next directly 
  to the left of the one circled.