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Balls and Belles

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These rugby-playing girls - 
or women, should I say? -
are so rough and ready,
dashing down that field,
conveying that oval ball
from this end to that,
gritting their teeth.
Oh, what might! Such a sight!

Or do I not prefer
to behold delicate white frocks
on ladies whose fairylike fingertips
hold their tiny needles,
sewing and crocheting,
or simply sitting in silence and smiling
as we fawn on and fancy their fine, fine faces?

Yet would I not receive a slap around my head
for even daring to dawdle on such thoughts?
It is so easy to spend so much time pondering
before I wake in fright:
which sight might I hold tight in my sleeping eyes
moments before I rise - and rise some more?


(19 May 2023)

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Date: 7/24/2023 1:18:00 AM
Thank you, Charlotte. Bit of fun, really, although there are, no doubt, people who find it hard to see women in different roles: prefer pretty with tiny needles and pretty smiles, or in rugger gear bashing a ball about a field!
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Date: 7/23/2023 8:24:00 AM
i caught the double entendre.;) surely you wouldn't receive a slap? thanks for reading and commenting on my ekphrasis :)
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