No longer at home in his world
at the end of a leash he didn't quite choose
pulls once to the left and then to the right
from a fraying french collar
that's so much too tight
In their youth they tumbled and dug
She was his Robin Hood, he was her knight
they followed their hearts and their noses
no one yelled if they barked
or trampled on roses
Back then they slept under stars
a sheepskin bed thrown over coiled hoses
created a fenced-in oasis
breathed into each other
exhaled all their crazes
Now her eyes look a little like his
squinting at moonlight and strange passing faces
face full of jowls from eating too much
fat rolls that jiggle
and no one will touch
Tonight he looks out at his baby and wife
a yard that's too small; his throat starts to clutch
yanks at the tie that's so much too tight
pulls once to the left and then to the right.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
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great! not sure if there's a rhythmic pattern I'm not seeing... some thing inverted or progressive? thanks!
ReplyDeletesomething, I mean! not some thing! ;)
ReplyDeletewait!!! I get it!! word rhymes twice in first verse, then has one word that rhymes in the second one ... right?!
ReplyDeleteyay you got it! and the last two lines in the last stanza reverse the ending words of rhyme in the first two lines of the first stanza
ReplyDeleteso in each stanza line 3 and 5 rhyme. In "following" stanza's line 2 rhymes with previous line 3 and 5. In last stanza, line 3 and 5 mirror line 3 and 5 in 1st stanza, only they are reversed. so, that's it...and the poem is pretty darn silly, but fun to create the pattern and try to make it work! YOu get a free pug Stephen ''cause you almost got it!!!
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