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Open Poetry #49

Green Velvet Couch

wordancer
Senior Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 809
VA

0 posted 2014-05-22 12:12 PM

On the green velvet couch
with languid wrist draped over swollen eyes
and the other lies
on my waist keeping time
with the beat
of the ceiling fan,
as I lay beneath
the cooling breeze.

Once again

and twice too many
I consider the tidal wave
of spilt milk on the kitchen floor.
If it were heavy cream would I trouble myself
to clean it up?

Is it useful, even to wonder,

as the flow slowly laps and tides
throughout the house?
I suppose I should at least
pick up those glittering shards of time
and perhaps move on, if only
I could get off the green velvet couch.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
~Mark Strand

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2014-05-22 01:29 PM

Oh, how I can relate to this one! I love this!
Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2014-05-22 01:56 PM

Ahhh . . . Sounds like the good old summertime blues in the spring.

~*~ Less depends on the size of the dog in a fight than the size of the fight in the dog. ~*~

Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

3 posted 2014-05-22 02:27 PM

Oozes lethargy and creates such vivid images. There's always the thought of maybe shaking off that feeling of indifference, that we all know so well, and moving on. But getting off the green velvet couch can take some doing at times.

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

4 posted 2014-05-22 04:23 PM

Relate to this one, wordancer. It's hard to get up with age sitting on me.
Ida

wordancer
Senior Member

since 2000-07-30

Posts 809
VA

5 posted 2014-05-25 12:10 PM

oops, a belated thanks for reading my words and letting me knowing that you got it... 'that not be able to just get up' and tackle ... anything.

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