"Odes to Caroline"

A Tanka and a Haiku Chain

She loved red roses
Champagne and best white cocaine
And she loved to dance

She'd make love like no tomorrow
And died dancing ~ yesterday

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Caroline

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You were a wild child

Like a banquet, feasting life

Beauty dancing past.

Are you somewhere still?

Cooking wonderful food, that smile

Heavenly sunshine.

You were the whirlwind

Or a star brightly burning 

In-can-des-cent-ly.

You lived three lifetimes

With your lust for adventure

Gone now, Carolina.

Still loved and still missed

There hasn’t been a party

Like your last, last dance.

Copyright © Res JFB 18th June 2010