Telephone

Telephone

"Six cats smoking cigarettes

watch two kangaroos cartwheeling

over three charming chimpanzees"...

words whispered, giggled, gypsied

down telephone line,

exchanged and overflowed with foolery

your face mirrored shock, 

final translation received, quite distorted 

(I made sure of that).`

Enjoyed watching you clean up 

"Sexy sirens swearing

watch two ken dolls kiss 

while chugging three champaigns"

(quite smart-ass for third grade!)

into something acceptable.  Still doing it,

helping my sorry self get out of scrapes,

you, little Scarecrow, guiding my Dorothy

down life's yellow brick road.

Big sister to my little.

by Margaret Bednar, March 18, 2023

Playing along with Shays Word Garden List - Randy Newman.  20 words use 3.  I used 13: cats, charming, cigarette, gypsies, kangaroo, mirror, overflow, sailor, scarecrows, smart-ass, sorry, telephone, yellow.

Also joining "Poets & Storytellers United #68".

Tomorrow

Tomorrow

Silhouetted beneath parasols, Victoria and Sophie

giggle and gossip morning away; Alberts, Theodores,

Virgils roll of syntax tongues as if candy,

"wedding' a word whispered, a word

with countless rules heartily studied and employed.

Louisa scoffs, swirls her gin, longing to replace

ladies "codebook" for adventure, to take on "peculiar",

foreign names, Iguanodon, Plesiosaurus, 

far more spectacular than Alfred or Gilbert.

Oh, to basket the skies through fog and clouds,

skyward balloons her hero, not puffed out chests of men.

To push limits of possibilities, demolish coy for brazen!

To be brave and bold like the falls of River Tess,

tumbling and frothing, not reluctant nor reticent 

...life a riddle to be solved!

Victoria asks Louisa why she is smiling.  Louisa sighs,

"I'm thinking about tomorrow."

by Margaret Bednar, March 3, 2023

I'm playing in "Shay's Word Garden - Word List - The Legacy of Ladysmith". I used 13 of the 20 words (only had to use 3):  codebook, foreign, peculiar, spectacularly, syntax, wedding, fog, coy, hero, demolished, reluctant, riddle, river

Also linking up with the fabulous "Poet and Storytellers United Friday Writings #66"