The Coconut Odyssy

By Fathi Abdallah Posted in English Poems | قصائد انجليزية

THE COCONUT ODYSSY

Cherry is climbing, a lizard in white 

A ladder that leads her to coconuts

I watch her, fulfilling a long-sought dream

After Bartlett’s departure no more “nots”

Coconuts are nutritious, as she thought

She and her fetus like them as a must

Not fattening, as she confirmed to me

I blessed her efforts, but my eyes were shut

Fathi A. Abdallah, MD