Open Poetry #49 |
Lazy Afternoon Cloud Watching |
JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
sitting out back letting Zoe sniff and pee got my book always have a book pull a chair up sit and begin to read after awhile stop and look toward the sky huge white clouds moving at a pretty good clip begin paying more attention to them I start to make out definitions first one looks like Pluto that rat’s dog okay, so Mickey was a mouse can make out Pluto’s long snout even longer drooping ears if I stretch my imagination I can see his tail what a wonderful early summer day well, it feel like a wonderful early summer day temperature gonna climb into the late seventies not bad for February in the swamp ah! back to the clouds I spy a monk’s head complete with balding crown oh boy just to the left there’s this one cloud shaped just like a heart that’s cool I read another page or two of The Silent Wife about a marriage disintegrating literary novel about a woman who murders her cheating husband put it down rather cloud watch Zoe has come to sit beside me hear the sound of a helicopter droning overhead we get a lot of them because we’re so near the gulf I used to ride the damn things a hundred and forty miles to work on offshore oil rigs look! just to the right of the chopper a man’s head Oh, this one is good can make out a dark eyebrow even the eye beneath it unreal even the man’s nostrils can be seen and lastly the mouth which is opened wide wish I had a photo of this my neck starts to hurt I rub the back of it feels better back to the clouds the man is gone drat that spoiled it for me mark my place in the book get up and Zoe and I meander back toward The Hovel ©February 19, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it. ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
what would we do without the clouds ? both in life and in the sky ? enjoyed the cloud art here and those that got the honorable mention within your poem |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yeah, cloud watching is an art form to many, Emma. Thank you for acknowledging it and for for your presence here. ~*~ It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
I love cloud watching Jerry! last night at supper I saw a perfect fruit bat with huge symetrical ears and wings. Awsome! Enjoyed sitting in the backyard with you and Zoe. Lori |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yep. A lot of images come out of the clouds, Lori. ~*~ It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it. ~*~ |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
I read this and really enjoyed it Jerry...but not out loud as i do with some poetry. You see, my neighbor lady's name is 'Zoe'. ...just bein' Bluesy |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Ahhh . . . You have a Zoe in your life too. At least on the fringe of your life. Thanks. ~*~ It's not that the man did not know how to juggle, he just didn't have the balls to do it. ~*~ |
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