Cebu Island Girl
She bears her name
like Magellan's cross
ties her hair up proudly
steps out in her finest
and her hips swing
and flow like lava
when
she bares her breasts
on
coconut covered hills
an
angel just descended
from mountains in the sky.
She prances to the
beat
A
Leipzig thoroughbred mare
her mane tossed back and flowing
she steps in high heel shoes
and the soldiers stare like stone
as
she dances up the road
the sailors only whisper
of her coming
down below
her dresses like fair winds
spread full out in the breeze
saddled with her mission
her veil of trembling lace
a
shroud across their dreams
they can only stare in wonder
as she spreads her
wings and flies
toward the cloudy misty sea
into heaven's virgin face
Lavandera -- Fernando Amorsolo
