‘An Ode to Tahoe’
Guest Column
Should I stand perchance
and gaze upon your shore
while your waves they dance
—abrupt and still.
Where my thoughts
shall spill
forevermore.
Deep into your emerald depth
it is much
as what I seek
likened by your clarity.
Beneath a mirror
—tinted zephyr
here I stood
dreaming awake
fifteen years to the day.
For my gladness
you have given
and my wish as true
as your hue is blue.
It is in your reflection of me
that I will always see
a storm-savaged sea
amongst waves of tranquility.
Floated by your youth
upon a buoyant breeze
with your water and your sand
you took me by the hand
and so I swam
through the depths of you
so deep and blue
so tried and true.
Buddy Love
Gardnerville, Nevada
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