Stephen Wilson-Floyd Poet Free verse

A Boy In the Back

The boy gets teased for wearing Holy Keds
And never Michael Jordan tennis shoes.
A field trip for a Friday afternoon:
Today, it’s modern art, the locals’ wing.
Head down, he tags along behind his class.
At least he is polite, his teacher thinks. 
The parquet floor makes crackling under foot.
A landscape hangs along a barren wall.
“In modern art, emotions bring in shapes...”
Not listening, as usual, she thinks.
“Look, that’s my home!”  he shouts aloud and points 
“No, that’s the modernist O’Keeffe!” she scolds.
And herds her charge with open arms past guards
And docents under disapproving eyes.

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J Hamilton Gist April 4, 2018 at 3:13 PM Sounds like victory.

Pegy Rowe January 10, 2018 at 4:57 PM That was a good expressive poem about the bids are so mean : When I was in grade school, we TRAINED HORSES, so instead of wearing GIRLEY DRESSES ect ect - I word Blue Jeans, and Western boots. I got pleanty of harassment - :