The mountains loomed high, the valleys of rivers reflected sparkling crystals all of sugar. <br />There were beets and there were canes and as far as the eye could see just sugar, sweet sugar. <br /> <br />Nothing black, nothing sour, not even a hint of bitterness <br />from east to west, north to south in this landscape of sugar. <br /> <br />My eyes licked those mountain slopes, my lips slurped up <br />those valley streams sprinkled with crystals of sugar. <br /> <br />Sliding down the mountains, skittering down, <br />a mountain slide of sugar – miles and miles of sugar. <br /> <br />White stallions thundering over the plains, white rabbits scampering <br />over the hills - invisible against vast sheets of snow sugar. <br /> <br />Sounds of music flooding through earth’s atmospheric filter, <br />all I can hear now is the resonant sounds of sugar. <br /> <br /> - July 29,2008 <br /> <br />Published online by The Ghazal Page <br />Go to: http: //www.ghazalpage.net/2008/sugar_challenge/refined_sugar.html<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/just-sugar-sweet-sugar-ghazal/
