In Monterey...

May-day poem twenty one

In Monterey

A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Monterey is paradise. Old wounds can be closed and new hope can be born near the sea.   

                        

In Monterey…

(May-day poetry twenty-one)

Dear Jenny, please come to Monterey. We can hold hands and we can walk with me on Fisherman Wharf. Let’s drink Irish coffee watching the dancing waves. Let’s find the lost love, let’s try to rebirth the want and need we once held so tightly. Let’s find the path where old lovers and dreamers can find peace again.

I want you to come to the old city. Listen with me to the music on open band night in downtown Monterey. We can
roam  the coffee shops and listen to the ancient and young Poets. I want us to dance and sing near the sea. Hold on to each other like young and new lovers can do. Learn the old laughter and joy we once held once.

Please come to Monterey. Let’s become like children, walk barefoot on the warm sandy beaches of Monterey. Built sand castles for the ages. Drink sweet wines and celebrate long and sweet kisses by the light of the kind moon
and powerful sea.

I want us to find our hunger to love, to dance and laugh again. I want to hold you like my first love and last dream.
We will sit by the sea and watch the sun rise up from the east. Do silence prayers for us to learn to be fearless.

The beaches and the kind city of Monterey will be our time to learn what we are hiding from. Monterey is beautiful,
the city is alive. Please sweet Jenny, come to Monterey. We will find our peace and joy again.

I want to walk hand in hand with you on the Monterey pier. We will sit where Hemingway drank his whiskey. Listen to the music of the sea. I will buy you simple gifts and we will create memories and places for us to hold on to forever.

Today we have 2500 miles of separation, too much fear and heavy hearts. Please come to Monterey. Be mine again for a time.

Sweet Jenny. I still love you with all my heart.

                                Written in 1992/rewritten in 2014
        Coyote/John Castellenas

Author's Note

Thank you for reading.

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Sweet Jenny made quite an impression in 1992. Distance is so difficult when it comes to maintaining relationships. 2500 miles of separation is a great deal of land and water. There was a sense of urgency in these words to relive what once been so special and was still desired. Much romance here. Lovely work.

Chris

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you dear Chris. You are right. 2,500 miles was too far. At least I had the sea.

[Chris Shaw]

The sea has its own beguiling beauty :)

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I love this love letter to a place that is only about 15 minutes away from me. I may be bias, but I can attest to this that Monterey is one of the most beautiful spiritual places here in the United States. I can be hyperbolic alot of the times, but I can't say enough in words what this place does to your soul. It's Steinbeck country but even to him his effusive description and love of this area pales in comparison to its truth. Great job John on the poem.

[Coyote Poetry]

Hello Carlos. I agree with you. I was station at Fort Ord for three years in 1991-1994. Big Sur and Monterey. A place to gather your mind. You are lucky and maybe next year I can return to Monterey. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Ps esp love the Hemingway whiskey
Reference

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Loving this
I’m just waking with Sunday coffee
Loving this so much
Thanks again for your writing I do enjoy it
It takes me into your past like a postcard

[Coyote Poetry]

Hello dear Julie. I need a long vacation and thank you for reading and the comment.

[Julie McCarthy (juliespenhere)]

Well hopefully you can get one soon
That’s ok

[Kerra]

We will sit where Hemingway drank his whiskey. Listen to the music of the sea. I will buy you simple gifts and we will create memories and places for us to hold on to forever

I really liked this part, such an emotional write, nicely presented...

[Coyote Poetry]

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