To Have A Look Around Poem by Robert Rorabeck

The ponies had a ride out to Lake Tahoe
To have a look around,
And to kiss the sharks underneath the purring airplanes:
There, the sky was so peaceful and evenly spread,
Like Alma’s birthday cake on my bluest bed:
And I had dreams for her in the greenness of her favorite
Color,
And I roamed around sleepy eyed and looked up wet stones
To kiss,
And lay in Alma’s lap while the animals played with toys:
Out in the sweaty bliss,
And men rode in off the seven seas, old heroes and ex-marines,
And they became our family and changed,
And slept in the clearest portions of our lake that we filled
With out tears,
And the pine trees spread like Alma’s eyelashes reflecting
In the banks of her eyes,
And we fawned there forever, and forgot our goodbyes.