Mermaids: Poem

Mermaids

Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair falls in waves, like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead. Your teeth are as white as sheep, recently shorn and freshly washed. Your smile is flowless each tooth matched with its twin. Your lips are like scarlet ribbon your mouth is inviting. Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates behind your veil. Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David jeweled with shields of a thousand heroes. Your breasts are like two fawns, twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies. You are a garden fountain a well of fresh water streaming down from Lebanon's mountains. Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Pamo Beach Florida also in heshbon by the gate of bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus. Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel, and the sheen of your hair radiated royalty. The crowns of mermaids, your gentlewomen, like the Nereids. So many beautiful mermaids tended. In your eyes the sunset beneath your feet and made their bends adorning's. At the helm, your glows with touches of those gloomy rose flower-soft hands that yarely frame the office. From the barge a strange invisible perfume hits the sense of peaches. (Song of Solomon 4:1, Mermaids)