This week the brilliant enchanted oak is driving the bus, see here for the rest of the bussers.... I chose the hands picture, but then what I wrote, I found to be a little bit rubbish, maybe it's the weather... Anyway - so here's an old hands related poem that's a little less rubbish hopefully...
Hard as Nails
Fingernails are the hardest thing on me, on the outside
If you don’t count my teeth
And please don’t count my teeth
I was careless, lost a few to love of sugary stuff
No, not in fights
In spite of the hard image, I’m really soft inside
A pussycat, mango, weeping willow, marshmallow
Big buttery pillow, I melt easy,
Soft when you squeeze me
Please, please don’t tease me
I’m sensitive
Ease me
And I’ll ease you back
22 comments:
This was really cute and fun. Thanks for posting for our reading pleasures.
Loved it! Still have my teeth but a few are 'iffy!' I plan on entering an old poem I wrote while caring for my mother .... as I gazed at her hands in mine.
Great take on the picture. I'll never quite thinbk of nails in the same way again
ease me and I'll ease you back. Lovely and suggestive.
Whew! Sultry! I'm melting a wee bit here at the steering wheel.
P.S. I wonder what your "rubbish" looks like. Hard to fathom.
Good one. Like the details like the loss of teeth to sugar and the mango bit especially.
Ah, sound, sound, sound. This one was sweet in my mouth.
Soft hearted does it for me! :)
:D I loved this, Loved this!
Very sweet and Fun poem...
You are a softie:)(like a coconut!)
Ah, I have found my tribe - the marshmallow people!
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Great use of the prompt. I was charmed by this.
a nice reflection, a ponderence as if the subject sat staring at her own hands... I like this!
I like how the title contrasts with all the softness that's in it.
The marshmallow people! Brilliant.
Get that lovely ex-marine bloke to do an expedition to visit them. His name won't come...arghh... Bruce Parry! (shouting at husbands useful sometimes)
I love Bruce Parry!
Full of neat observation, and the tongue ever-so-slightly-in-the cheek so nicely done.
awww... you baby kitten you... loved reading this poem, it is actually, somehow sticky... nice!
Thanks all muchly, glad my marshmallowness isn't an issue among such good bloggy friends!
Clever that, turning the image back on itself and coming out all marshmallow. Liked it very much.
interesting take on the photo, really like it.
thanks for sharing
cfm
Thanks Dave and Crazy field mouse - most kind
:-)
Ilkiesthis , tis coolio, vulnerable, and a bit clever.What more could yawant, a pint?
Wouldn't mind now TFE, thanks muchly!!
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