New Poetry by Kenneth Kakareka

My Love

Her and I

are out to eat

tucked away

in a red brick corner

all our own.

She’s looking at

a skinny group of girls

celebrating 1st place

for their swimsuit modeling competition.

I’m looking at her

dark roast black hair

pulled up in a bun,

hazelnut-colored skin

and milk chocolate eyes.

Her wonderfully crooked teeth

she doesn’t show enough of

with a smile;

that’s my sunrise.

I’m looking at her

California-shaped birthmark

beneath her eye

tattooed on as character.

Her cute, pudgy

sausage link-shaped finger

with the diamond ring

I gave her

that seems to have been

carved and crafted

solely for her;

no other finger

wearing that ring

could look

even remotely close

to brilliance.

- © Kenneth Kakareka 2021

Ken Kakareka is a poet and writer who lives in California with his wife-to-be. He is the author of Late to Bed, Late to Rise (Black Rose Writing, 2013). Ken's stuff has been published in Lost Lake Folk Opera Magazine, Ink & Voices, Conceit Magazine, Spontaneous Spirits Magazine, DoveTales Journal, Amulet Magazine, HASH Journal, Route 7 Review, The Vital Sparks Journal and Burnt Pine Magazine. He has stuff coming forth in Gargoyle Magazine.