Rosemarie Rowley Poet Villanelle

A Leaping Acquaintance

A LEAPING ACQUAINTANCE

O ask me if a friend is mine for keeping
And I will scroll down her countenance in years
To show acquaintance that’s a target leaping

And I will tell you of the long nights’ weeping
Into the valley of the corrupted seers
That her acquaintance was a target, leaping

As if acts of confidence were seeping
Down the drainpipe like a burst of tears,
Asking if a friend is for safe keeping,

Secrets unravelled in the glare, bleeping
With the traffic of the times that hooked my peers
Just ask me if her friendship’s mine for keeping:

I say, a  pox on their assiduous reaping
Their facts are gleaned where the bar sells beers
To show acquaintances like a target, leaping

On opportunity, grafting  on chances, peeping
With trashy envious shades adrift in leers;
O ask me if  this friend is worth the keeping,
I’ll show an acquaintance missed the target, leaping.
 from IN MEMORY OF HER 2008)

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Beata Agustin December 9, 2023 at 2:56 AM Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.

David Meade January 8, 2015 at 4:37 PM a powerful and passionate write! my heart was aching at end. Rosemarie Rowley January 9, 2015 at 4:15 AM Thank you!