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When Meeting Beauty

When Meeting Beauty I read the menu at the restaurant looked up and saw a pair of brown leg stretching up to heaven and thought this waitress is from Senegal, as all beautiful women are born there, a poor country which God compensated by given the people physical exquisiteness. In my old man’s confusion I ordered goat chops which was quite apt for my unbecoming thoughts. When she served the food I looked demurely down but did see her white teasing smile and saw her walk away moving like a schooner on the high seas. No, I’m not an improper dirty old man and didn’t make any leering remarks, but it was a moment when I wished to be young and be able to admire beauty openly and my admiration would have been met with a smile....and perhaps a chance of a warm embrace.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 5/22/2012 3:45:00 PM
you've expressed the experience of aging so well in this poem. i love all your descriptions but the end is so real and so poignant. nice poem!
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 5/22/2012 4:18:00 PM
thank you Ilene
Date: 5/22/2012 7:46:00 AM
written from the rugged mariner's heart. I'd like to visit that cafe you spend so much time in. Round tables or square? love, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 5/22/2012 8:53:00 AM
the tables like people come in many forms dear kathy
Date: 5/22/2012 7:16:00 AM
Oskar ah we have all been there..David
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 5/22/2012 8:53:00 AM
indeed I remember it well David

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