A Flash In The Pan Of Penelope: The Table Was Set In Its Woeful Ways...

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Open Poetry #50

A Flash In The Pan Of Penelope: The Table Was Set In Its Woeful Ways...

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

0 posted 2019-01-19 05:37 AM

Flittering gnats dream themselves locusts
as they find a little bit of Egypt
on her shoulder

Oiled cast iron skillet
sizzles like falling rain
while gasping onions

His chapped hand reaches out
to touch her fingers
She schleps the potatoes and oil

Her thoughts harden into the hot iron pan
The table rises from the floor
as he seats himself

The paper unfolds its pages
as she eyes the man she once knew,
viewing now his lackadaisical ways

He struggles to escape
all that he can remember
while making a study of old news

From memories,
he tries to beckon her to his will,
but she refuses to leave the stove

She doesn't turn when he touches her arm
She knows he’s only begging for something else
...to fill his hands

...just bein' Bluesy

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2019-01-19 07:04 AM

Gosh, Bluesy,
You sure can tell a story. You have got about the grittiest nitty I've ever read. You skimmed the surface of a very human condition and revealed some deep pockets. I think you are a keen observer of people and body language to be able to write this way. You made me feel a lot of emotions for these two,
none of it pleasant. Very well done my friend.

(A toast to your poem. I am jelly!) ~L

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite

since 2002-11-07

Posts 2417
In The Mirror

2 posted 2019-01-19 03:19 PM

We see much drama in the "human condition", don't we, Miss Lori?
But then, you and I soften its blow with humor,
and that gets us through it all.

You? Jelly?
Aww! That's because you're so damn sweet!

See ya!

...just bein' Bluesy

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