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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PAPEETE WATERFRONT, by CLIFFORD GESSLER Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset kindles pyres across the bay
Last Line: For healing, secretly, to mama po.
Subject(s): Papeet, Tahiti
First Line: The sunset kindles pyres across the bay
Last Line: For healing, secretly, to mama po.
Subject(s): Papeet, Tahiti
The sunset kindles pyres across the bay;
the mellow evening nestles coolly down,
and lights bloom softly as the island town
awakens from the drowsy heat of day.
Young street-girls, fragrant garlands in their hair,
pass, two and two, or wait to give their lips
to woman-hungry lads from foreign ships;
guitars sound gently on the evening air.
On the stone benches in the seaward park,
beachcombers meet and gossip and complain:
here are the careless young, the old and vain
who chase lost youth beneath the scented dark --
and haunted-eyed and stricken ones who go
for healing, secretly, to Mama Po.
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