Love Poem: Shantelle

Shantelle

They were stoned out of their bodies and mind at Stonehenge

Climbed over the fence and enjoyed the Cromlech’s shadows

Razor wire would not prevent their midsummer night dream

Of being one with the moon which spilled light into their souls

Eclipsed by ultimate pleasure the couple drugged into paradise


Troubadours of romantic languages settled for tender rebellion

Moss never grew on rolling headstones as they gave it their all

Cunning tongues played a frolicking intro as an owl watched in awe

It was the year 69 on their own personal highway to witches' delight

‘Can’t see the broomstick but we must make love and longing grow’


This was the bosom of nature and he caressed her cusped breasts

Mother Gaia approved pushing and pulling like a sweet tidal stream

The Northern Star polarized free flowing passion and applauded

Changed position as they relived an ancient harmonious fantasy

Nude pastures appeared to suggest psychedelia was clear vision


When midnight oil burnt fire on soft skins joy and lust they glowed

Like a thousand candles on the shrine of togetherness and release

One more revolution sated their quest from penultimate shackles

Liberated from convention they convened and contested the norm

Of missionaries of doom freed from their ancestor’s firm prohibition


When Juliet and Romeo warmed to rays of a new dawn’s allusion

Exhausted and yet fresh in morning glory and dew’s nascent nurture

They had planted one single seed in the womb of sheathed time

One parameter’s barb though had pricked their insane protection

They called her Shantelle meaning stone and doped they had been


16th February 2020

Written for the theme of Shantelle meaning Stone in Old Occitan Language