Stone men tantalize the shoreline-

The totemic temporal tributes

Draped with a Tanzanite skyline

where their shadows lie so mute

before blending into the nighttime.

*This was the first version in a rhyming style. It is based on notes of raw material I scribbled as we traveled. Later, it developed into version 2, a more developed  version without a rhyme scheme. The poems can be read literally, but they are actually meant more as metaphor.

*Tanzanite is one of my birthstones and is beautiful. Discovered in the late 1960s in Tanzania, and found exclusively in this tiny area of the world, tanzanite exhibits a rich dark blue to violet-blue color for which the gemstone is treasured.

[ http://www.americangemsociety.org/december-birthstones ]