PAPER MACHE TOWNS

Paper Mache Towns

Moulded  paper.

Unfolding in vivid colours:

Mauve skies jewelled

With brilliant white clouds

A town we imagined 

For our offspring!

Paper Mache Towns

Devoid of machetes

And gunpowder.

Gothic churches, intricate synagogues and

Azure tiled mosques interlinking,

In camaraderie.

Latticework of canopies!

Trees emerald green

Oaks, cypresses, acacias of the Ottomans

Pines releasing minty aromas

Lakes Azure, deep,  waves interwoven with cotton dreams

Tulips unfolding, billowing in silky terrains

No famines

For wheat is bontiful

No bounties placed 

On the heads of the liberals.

Caramel fields of corn.

Sunbeams shooting through our core

Healing  the ills of the yesteryears.

Can you: the omniscient 

Blow life

Into our paper Mache Towns