THE SOUTHERN CROSS

The Southern Cross ...

Under the starry night
north on the old planet
I think of you ... love ...

I think of your sweet eyes
on how you look at me
when you love me
of our whispers
of your kisses ....

I want to hold your hand
for life
smiling
loving
happy .....

Take me love
to the Southern Cross
Show it to me again
as you cuddle me
in your embrace .....

Copyright 2012 Sonia Paz Baronvine

TIME

Time passes by so fast
we turn around and ten years
have come and gone..
I have a photo of my children
taken ten years ago
all six of them sitting on the sofa
smiling at me…

Now ten years later
I smile at them when I look
at that sweet photo, they
were so small then…

Now some are engaged,
Some are married,
some have children
some are in school
some work,
some live far away
some still live at home..
And as I type this poem
my grandson plays with
his toys next to me,
as time goes by…

Copyright 2010 Sonia Paz Baronvine

NEARING CHILE...

I feel you coming

that moment...

when I see the sun

appear over the mountains

as when I was a child.....

That moment

when I step on my land

and smell the aroma....

When I look at the faces of everyone

and see my race, my eyes, my smile....

That moment

when I embrace

those I love

when I laugh

when I call my friends

when I drive thru my city....

When I listen to my music

when I am called

to tea time!!

I feel you near....

Copyright 2012 Sonia Paz Baronvine

LIKE A CONDOR...

I want to fly like a condor...free

with the blue sky around me

looking at the beauty of my land.....


Gliding silently

among the mountains

clear lakes reflecting me

landing on the hilltops

feeling the wind caressing me

and with ancient eyes

look at the dawn....

Copyright 2012 Sonia Paz Baronvine

A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT ...

A midsummer's night

I will climb up

looking from up high

at Santiago's lights....

I will sit in the dark

to fill my pupils

with the beauty

of her nights.....

Rivers of golden lights

cross you

my hometown....

Place full of memories

of joys and sorrows

back today

to see you

come and wait for me.....

I am almost there

and soon we

will be together....

Copyright 2012 Sonia Paz Baronvine

IT IS A MATTER OF SKIN...

Years pass ... the outside changes
our eyes sink, hide
after all they saw ...
Our mouth, slowly loses the
smile but we do not know
the rictus of age one day surprise us ...
Changed on the outside ...
in our hair, they appear
silver threads
and our walk ...slows ...
The tenderness of the grandchildren
wards off loneliness, protects us
and we feel safe there, as
grandmothers, and without needing
to be more than that ...
But fate is playful
has plans of it's own
Our plans are not important...
And suddenly you're a guitar
in the hands of a virtuoso
and sing again
beautiful, young, free
with the melody of love
enveloping you....
and fully feel the kiss of desire
returning to your skin ....

A KISS IN THE WIND...

Last night, I went out to the terrace .. .. it was cold ...
the stars shone beautiful in the night sky...
my warm breath you could see in the air
and I fell in love with Venus ....
I thought of you .. so far away from me
sleeping in your warm summer night
oblivious to my thoughts ...
And here, in the north of the old planet
with snow on the pines that surround
the island ... you sent you a kiss
floating in the wind going south ....

Copyright 2011 Sonia Paz Baronvine