An orange ball sun sets <br />as a green streak explodes. <br />Lava rock, palm leaves, and breeding whales <br />crest, then submerge <br />into subconscious levels. Negro <br />clear crystal waters, energy <br />dispersed, chilled chi waivers. <br /> <br />Terra homo sapien bellies <br />lay supline on wood floating, earth <br />sealed by lava fires, chilled with <br />trade winds returning. Rivers ran <br />red as man prevailed over Gods <br />and nature. Sharks now swimming <br />backwards, humans rise into darkened <br />skies, green only a mirage, <br />a pretense, omens forgotten <br />in totems lost.<br /><br />Cheryl Lynn Moyer Peele<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/totems-lost/