Ode to Costa Rica

Sun, ever present,

life fills every aspect of the landscape,

completes every sentence in the

sweet vocabulary of nature.

Resplendent palms,

multitudes of trees that

nurture grand varieties of

greenery whether by design or

the circumstance of the sheer

power of the living.

Unrelenting paradise for

those who truly embrace nature,

vast laboratory for the

persistent diversity of the

bounty of planet earth.

Birds that bind all the

colors that sunlight can yield

within their feathery garments.

Birds are everywhere,

they fill the rhapsody of morning

with song,

tucanettes and scarlet macaws,

the elusive quetzal wearing

a kaleidoscope of colors

that puts the painter’s pallete to shame.

Surrounded by two oceans,

we dance in the warm surf

under tropical skies,

beneath the inebriating and

erotic call of the tropics,

propelled into each other’s arms

enkindling our gypsy hearts with the

alluring rhythms of the sea.

The persuasive call of howler monkeys

like wind that echoes through the trees

above  the relentless sound of

driving waves pummeling the shoreline.

Costa Rica,

land of visual and sensual delights that

tells such a vivid story

regarding this glorious earth and

its sublime potential.