I hope your days be bright and love will be near you always..

I need a year near the Pacific Ocean to write my novel.

I hope your days be bright and love will be near you always..

She was the Gypsy girl, Monterey Bay dancer.

She would gather her friends and they would find the sea.

They would sing and dance for the falling sun and the rising moon.

I was lucky. Dear Maria, befriended me and she taught me how to laugh,

she taught me how to dance and sing again.

She told me on late October night in 1993.

Johnnie, you became old. Your eyes are filled with darkness and

your mind filled with s**t.

She caressed my face and touched my hair.

We danced bare foot in the moving and dancing waves.

She whispered me. I will give you a Gypsy secret.

“Drink, dance, kiss and embrace.

Laugh, sing and howl at the moon.

Never look back my friend.

One day, every kiss, every dance.

We will need to remember.”

You are my Gypsy man and

We will create new memories and

tell the world. Leave us be.

Life is the utopia of knowing a lover,

knowing the taste of a warm kiss and

praying to the Pacific Ocean.

I saw her the last on a day in late 1994 in late Spring.

She organized a large gathering of my Gypsy friends.

We drank, we danced and we we embraced.

We danced by the sea and she told me.

Soldier boy, soldier boy. Leave the Army.

Write the great book and remember.

Life is know laughter, life is to know joy.

We must know many kisses and be fearless.

I love you Johnnie and when a Gypsy gal loved you.

It a love never forgotten and written in stars for us to see.

I hope your days be bright and love will be near you always.

I told her. Maria, Maria.

Thank you for your friendship and your family kindness.

I love you so and thank you for teaching me.

I wasn’t alone.

Dancing Coyote

Author's Note

Thank you for reading.

Reviews

[Abhilash Hegde]

I could experience the memories the way it is vividly written. It talks of old times, one held in high, merry and being joyous. It takes of youth and the touch of growing old. You bring those moments alive with words here and it literally felt like a scene before me. thanks for writing and sharing, Coyote. Enjoyed, reading it!

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Abhilash for reading and the comment. We must the new day, our best day.

[Marie]

What an amazing scene you depict in this wonderful poem, dear Coyote. The joy which memories bring as one talks and thinks of old times is so finely inked and brought to life through excellent word choice and visual imagery which unfolds in front of the reader's eyes as if they were present at the time the memories are made. I can imagine that the memories after the war were not the most pleasant, but Maria changed all that. Such a free spirit, so delightful to feel free again! You captured it all superbly, dear Coyote. A privilege to read, thank you for sharing your wondrous poetry with us! It is amazing! Thank you again...

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Marie. We need kind people to show us. We can be okay.

[Marie]

Yes, I agree dear Coyote. Thank you again for sharing...

[butterfly]

"Laugh, sing and howl at the moon" is a great line. Thanks for sharing this beautiful poem :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear butterfly for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[Pryde Foltz]

Life is the utopia of knowing a lover,

knowing the taste of a warm kiss and

praying to the Pacific Ocean.

You always create such an amazing lovescape. You waltz us with your words, John:)

[Coyote Poetry]

Yes dear Pryde. We will forget the bad days and we shall remember the good days. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Stella Armour]

I could feel the uplifting life of this gypsy girl, they are uninhibited in their ways and it is infectious to a soldier boy no doubt who has to live within boundaries...

Much enjoyed as are all your poems John... thank you:)

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Sharon for reading and the comment. I need a few years near the sea my friend.

[Thomas W Case]

Tremendous painting with words. Excellent imagery.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Thomas for reading and the comment. I do appreciate.

[Patricia Wedel]

dearest John... my Father's family came from Hungary in the late thirties. I know part of me is Gypsy as I love to dance by the Sea. I went to a University near Napa Valley in California not far from the Pacific Ocean. I love the Art for your Poem and the Embrace brushed in strokes of Passion. Be safe and enjoy the Sunsets Kiss of Eternity. Softly, Pat

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Pat for reading and the comment. Your Gypsy blood is with you. I need a year at Big Sur. To dance, to write and find the peace of the sea near.

[red93]

Fabulous Coyote - and Maria was wise as well as beautiful. Live for the moment it's the only way. Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Coyote Poetry]

She was. It was the early nineties. No cell phones. Maybe one day near the Monterey bay. The Gypsies will find me again. I teach my grandchildren the Gypsies ways. Own little and travel the world. Thank you dear friend for reading and the comment.

[~Sarah~ Idríel T..]

Heart warming poem, greatly written. Sometimes we need to slow down to see what's close to us.
Thank you for sharing it.

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree dear Sarah and thank you dear friend for reading and the comment.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I remember a time in my life, after my first divorce, when I needed to be taught how to laugh again.
It was a long road to that point...
But I learned and will never stop laughing again.
j.

[Coyote Poetry]

I am glad Jacob. Took me California, good friends to learn to laugh again. Thank you for reading and the comment. I do appreciate