Hope wont mind if she rests a little,
she wont mind, will she, if we Jazz
fingertips skimming along the cleft
of a taffeta dress, if we ease slightly
this way, a little to the right,
a little to the left, down
the slow drink notes
to the quick step chorus line,
drumming up the steady bass
pipe syncopated tiptoes
to the drink me in skies, where she is, skirt -
hitched above her knees, stroking her weary feet,
looking down from her pedicure bed
through the starry, starry night.
Hope won't mind...will she?
If we take her daughters
pour wine to their puckered lips, soften
their robes, smooth the gathered pleats
at the meeting of their hips, and watch them dance
Jazz notes, a little this way, a little sway
that way, Hope won't mind, will she,
raising her eyes to the heavens, to the left,
to the right...Hope sighs; switches
on the TV for News at Midnight,
for dessert, her favourite Soap.
4 comments:
You're a good--and apparently prolific--poet, but when I look for comments I see that, like me, you've accumulated an impressive clutch of zeroes. Maybe your poems are caviar to the general, and the hallelujah choruses gravitate to bloggers of sentimental doggerel, and nothing can change that. But you might attract a few more readers if you changed your profile a bit--if you provided a little info about yourself in addition to poet type interested poetry. You might even give us a picture of yourself. If you're afraid cybercrooks might use your face for some malign purpose, you could obscure part of it with coffee cup or tree trunk or something. I plan to revise my profile; it's more communicative than yours, but not very exciting. Good luck.
lol, thanks David - i saw blogs as storage - starting to link, use and read more - occasionally more sociable at some the writers sites - ukauthors.com, abctales.com. as littleditty - thanks for visiting - i appreciate it.
Nicky
Hi Little One,
Some beauties here. Should I say: don't touch, or no use anyhow?
Loveya,
Deborah
http://www.immasgirl.blogspot.com/
(for novel Rachel Sarai's Vineyard)
and
http://www.deborahrey.wordpress.com
(for short stories and poems)
hallo! i was going to try edit this, but didn't manage to snip more than a word. It's unfiddleable with now i think! Hope minds. Thanks for popping in -cheered me up xxx
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