Jason - Vacation

On the writing

This week Justin picked the form of pantoum.  If you don't know what that is, I didn't either until he warned me he was going to do it a few weeks ago.  It is a poem form which doesn't have to rhyme, which I like, and it reuses every verse, but does it in a way the meaning, sometimes with punctuation, can change with context.  So, it causes you to think about every line in two ways.  It really tickles a part of my brain.  This week I picked the topic of vacation, since I am going on one very soon.  I tried, in this poem to express both the literal vacation, plus something a little bit deeper that get triggered with vacation moments.  I hope you like it.

Vanilla Sun

Beams of vanilla sun hold promise,
Illuminated moments of magnified bliss.
Loved ones rediscover each other far from home.
Punctuating the air with popcorn squeals of exhilaration.

Illuminated moments of magnified bliss,
The sudden reveal of the perfect castle,
Punctuating the air with popcorn squeals of exhilaration.
Hope is a cinnamon and sugar seduction.

The sudden reveal of the perfect castle.
Flashes of a paradise where
Hope is a cinnamon and sugar seduction,
Like the smell of my wife’s perfume.

Flashes of a paradise where
Loved ones rediscover each other far from home.
Like the smell of my wife’s perfume,
Beams of vanilla sun hold promise.