1
April
Sorry
for the late start to National Poetry Writing Month 2015. I have been working
as a guest speaker on a Cruise Ship with limited access to the internet and
unable to post until now. I will catch up on the poems over the first few days.
The
first poem is inspired by the thought that NaPoWriMo starts on April Fool’s
Day. The second is a Limerick. On board the ship, we ran a Limerick competition
for the guests and I wrote the latter poem as a fresh example.
Best
wishes and keep writin’ and recitin’
Mark
x
Asymmetry and all
that.
She
made me her April Fool.
Enjoyed
the experience so much
kept
me on for the year.
Me,
smitten, and she knew it.
Permanently
off-centre
like
an unbalanced equation.
Calls
- unreturned for days.
Standing
outside cinemas in rain,
waiting
in vain for her to ghost round the corner.
Parents,
waiting at the restaurant,
her
at the airport, texting she’s off on a girl’s weekend
that
was so last minute and she’d make it
up to me.
The
problem was, she did.
Just
thirty minutes of her undivided attention
would
make me liquefy. Her soft focus gaze and honeyed seduction suckered me every time.
The
breathlessness of a saloon driver
taking
a Ferrari on a track day.
Even
the letting go was gentle.
The
classic “Look, we need to talk”,
ventured
in the gasping dusk of lovemaking.
Not
her fault the break was so brutal,
as
hard to me as the falling,
a
one inch punch swaddled in velvet kisses.
2
April
Tea for Two
A
Tea Shop owner of shy, bashful ways,
Declared
her love and left me amazed.
She
used teas exotic
In
ways most
erotic.
Yes,
she showed me fifty shades of Earl Grey.
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