Questions

1.
Is the grape only a ripe pitcher 
Of Shiraz and Bordeaux?
Or is it the breast of a pagan goddess
Hiding behind the leaves 
Of primeval thirst? 

2.
Why does Chopin leave
wet roses 
on lines and dots
of Guernica?

3.
Is a tear 
an ocean’s only jewel box 
or does it hold 
Bohemian treasures also?

4.
Will the letter-box 
filled with blue moonlight
Ever taste 
the salty winds 
of floating worlds?

5.
Why do white roses 
of your mornings
bloom 
In wombs and words?

6.
Which harbour 
do lost paper boats
Drop ancient childhood 
laughters to?

7.
Is the butterfly a flying flower?
Or had Monét stolen
all the water lilies
From its wings?