From Einstein To The Dancing Bears

Part of The Underway Gourmet by Suzy O'Keefe

circa April 1996

It's funny what goes thru one's head during 3 weeks at sea...

From Einstein to the Dancing Bears
The Clouds they Sail in southern Airs
Wonderland and Dr. Seuss
All the ones from Mother Goose

Elephants as Light as Any
Camel Backs and Poodles Plenty
Even Snakes have this Obsession
Strolling always in Procession

Profiles, mostly folks I Know
People, watching where I Go
Each Alike but Not the Same
With Animation in some Frames

One Suggesting Running, Jumping,
While Laughing hard at something
So many levels of E-Motion
Exist Here on the Ocean

So many Thoughts of Love are There
With time to heal the Past
Love Exists again...Somewhere
If ONLY I can last

A piece of Rainbow Inside a Cloud
Soon becomes a Headdress Proud
It tops the Nobel Indian Chief
Whose profile's now distinct beneath

Dinosaurs that Roam No More
Still Exist here in these Clouds
And Don't Forget the Sailing Ships
That now sail Heaven's way
There must be thousands drifting by
All Guide my sail today

Often there'll be Six of One
And FOURTEEN of Another
The same Image just repeated so
Sometimes just the Faces show

At Other Times, so REAL it seems
The Sky is FILLED with just the Parts
Very often Their QUITE Distinct
Those things that visit Phallic Dreams
So Many now Around ME

HERE Size Has Nothing Much To Do
With Who Is Twice As Big As Who

Everything I can Imagine
Is In these Clouds I See
Dreams that LIVE Inside my head
Taking Shape and almost voice
"You're Moving In The Right Direction"
"But We Can't Tell You Where"
"When Once You Find It With Your HEART"
"You'll Know You're Finally There"!

...Who'd have thought THERE was HERE???