[REVISED]
From Indonesia the saleslady said – my new
multicoloured bag, a tapestry of pink, purple,
silver, orange and blue embroidered materials,
enchanting beads and sequins and pearls
The former ballerina’s home looked more a stage
than the stage itself Miss Nina claimed,
adorned with exotic souvenirs, benign smiling
Indian goddess, a Spanish shawl*
A Chinese casket, a Russian samovar; ready to
fall prey to this wonderful bag, its symbolic
dream aura tapestry, soft pastel colours with
glitzy bits sewn together with great panache
Like inter-connected pathways of beautiful
thoughts stitched together with light
and love
[ORIGINAL]
Enchanted by my new multicolored bag from Indonesia
the saleslady said, a tapestry of embroidered materials
with beads and sequins and pearls, pink and purple and
silver and orange and blue
When I read Miss Nina, the former ballerina, claimed her
home looked more like a stage than the stage itself adorned
by souvenirs from exotic places, an Indian goddess with a
smile benign, a Spanish shawl*
A Chinese casket, a Russian samovar; I was ready to fall
prey to this wonderful bag, its tapestry symbolical of my
dream of an aura, soft pastel colours with glitzy bits sewn
together with great panache
Like beautiful thoughts stitched together in my mind, inter-
connected by pathways of light and love
«Ballet on Tour» Nada Curcia-Prodanovic, illustrated by
Dusan Ristic; Oxford University Press 1972
*shawl - quoted from p. 64
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