Marilyn in the Mountains

Audio Recordings, Nostalgia, Travel / tagged Marilyn Monroe / July 21, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sixty years after
the release of the film
returning again to
The River of No Return

Stepping again in a river
that you can’t step in twice
sleeping again in a cabin
by the cabin where you slept

Listening again to the rapids
that run over the same rocks
and still chew at the roots
of the same bent tree

Listening for the whispers
of the words
you went away without saying
the words
we are all still waiting to hear

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2 thoughts on “Marilyn in the Mountains”

Ken Christopher July 29, 2020 at 4:58 am

Beautiful
This poem has the wistfulness
Of Marilyn
In the ???????? mountains

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wolfgang July 21, 2019 at 8:21 am

fitting tribute to Marilyn
who could not look bad
even if drenched.

we all had a crush on Marilyn
who gave us beauty
in blondness
and a whispery voice
that curled the tongue
and the back of our skin
and made us all
in love again.

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