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Scary First Meeting

I wore my pretty pink dress; you told me
I looked quite divine. Nervously I walk
through the door, your ma wails like a banshee,
but I clear my dry throat and try to talk.

A spotlight shines brightly over my head -
it's just like an interrogation! Quick
questions fired like bullets fill me with dread;
I want to run from the room and be sick

Your mother is a monster! I pity
you; and loathe the way she silenced your dad!
Please come and live with me in the city
or move into your own bachelor pad

One day she could be my mother in law,
I must zip my lip, or it could be war!

S Form Contest
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Sonnet – 10 syllables per line, Scary theme chosen 

07-22-17

Copyright © Jan Allison | Year Posted 2017

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Arthur Vaso Date: 9/3/2017 7:45:00 PM This is hilarious!! oh and true!!! Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 9/4/2017 4:06:00 AM I had fun with the theme lol:-)

Gregory Richard Barden Date: 8/16/2017 3:11:00 AM Yikes! This reminds me of a frighteningly similar situation I had once ... penned so wonderfully! I love it, and congrats, Jan - you are so good with "ink and paper", my friend! ;-) <3 Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/16/2017 3:17:00 AM aww Cheers Greg - looks like you had a lucky escape!:-) hugs jan xx

Eve Roper Date: 8/15/2017 7:55:00 PM Back to congratulate you on your win ~* Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/16/2017 2:53:00 AM Thanks Eve:-) hugs jan xx

Nette Onclaud Date: 8/15/2017 2:46:00 PM whoot!... sweet congrats on your award, jan.. soupie later!..huggs Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/15/2017 2:47:00 PM Thanks Nette:-) hugs jan xx

Dale Gregory Cozart Date: 8/15/2017 1:03:00 PM Congrats, Jan, on your win! Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/15/2017 1:04:00 PM Cheers Dale:-) hugs jan xx

Jean Murray Date: 7/26/2017 3:53:00 PM The mother in law from hell? You figured how to outwit her well Jan. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/26/2017 5:42:00 PM I will say nothing about my late MIL lol... but some folks are a great source of inspiration lol:-) hugs jan xx

Pat Adams Date: 7/23/2017 9:12:00 PM I like this. Funny in a scary sort of way. Kind of a crap shoot what you get!! Good rhyme as all the time. 80] RPA Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/24/2017 8:31:00 AM Cheers Roger:-) hugs Jan xx

White Wolf Date: 7/23/2017 8:07:00 PM I'll remember that anagram! Great sonnet, Jan! Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/23/2017 8:09:00 PM ha ha ha WW yes its fun isn't it I found the quote after I wrote the poem but I thought it was perfect:-) hugs jan xx

M. L. Kiser Date: 7/23/2017 4:10:00 PM Ooh, that's rough. Great sonnet though. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/23/2017 4:18:00 PM I am not a fan of the sonnet form but I thought I would try for the contest:-) pure fiction write thankfully:-) hugs Jan xx

Charlie Smith Date: 7/23/2017 9:38:00 AM If you follow a fat kid home you usually meet a fat parent. So, beware... Good write Jan, best wishes. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/23/2017 4:05:00 PM Cheers Charlie:-) just written for the contest not from experience:-) hugs Jan xx

Tahira Parveen Date: 7/23/2017 8:35:00 AM Mother's in law Jan, mine was in a another country, yet heard its roar over here. thankfully not around anymore and him...lol :) Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/23/2017 4:05:00 PM Thankfully mine is a fiction write but i know other's can relate:-) hugs Jan xx

Eve Roper Date: 7/22/2017 11:50:00 PM wonderful write, I do not believe in the idea if you marry the person you are love with his the only one in your heart not the family.... Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/15/2017 12:50:00 PM Thanks so much Eve sorry i missed replying before:-( hugs jan xx

Nette Onclaud Date: 7/22/2017 9:33:00 PM when you marry someone , you marry his whole family.. lol, jan, love the humor about'outlaws' here.. finely !.. huggs Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 8/15/2017 12:51:00 PM Thanks Nette sorry I missed replying before:-) hugs jan xx

Alfred Berggren Date: 7/22/2017 1:15:00 PM Maybe she be nicer to you when she gets to know you better. You think? Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 3:15:00 PM who knows Alfred - thankfully it is a fiction write for a contest but I guess there are some real dragons out there:-) hugs Jan xx

Lim'Rik Flats Date: 7/22/2017 9:44:00 AM So sonnets can be silly too? (Well, at your house anyway;-) Docile dad... or deaf! Fun one!!! huggasnorkles ~ j Meet my mummy, she's not scary//Just cute fangs, a little hairy//You will love her//but kid glove 'er//should we ever marry. Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM Well I am not a sonnet fan so any I write would be deemed silly lol I don't do romance so humour it is:-) love your limerick response lol hugs jan xx

Anne-Lise Andresen Date: 7/22/2017 9:00:00 AM - .... glad I was not in your shoes, Jan :) -Fun to read :) - Luck in the contest - hugs // Anne-Lise :) Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM Pure fiction for the contest:-) hugs Jan xx

Heidi Sands Date: 7/22/2017 8:44:00 AM Wow Very well expressed with this one Jan. Straight to the point :) Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 3:17:00 PM Thanks Heidi:-) hugs Jan xx

Lin Lane Date: 7/22/2017 8:23:00 AM Tim says to take the high road, but I'd take any road that leads away from that scary woman. I see trouble ahead if she gets into that marriage bed. RUN! Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 8:33:00 AM I bailed out of one relationship Lin - he had the mother from hell and I wasn't catholic which didn't help matters further lol:-) hugs Jan xx

Tim Smith Date: 7/22/2017 8:18:00 AM Yes, take the high road... you'll have plenty of time to talk about her later when she is gone. Who knows she might just be overprotective of her boy...but I doubt it...lol Login to Reply Jan Allison Date: 7/22/2017 8:32:00 AM Oh I went out with a guy this Tim in fact we nearly got engaged lol but she would have been the mother in law from hell and I bailed out. He couldn't make a decision without consulting his mother:-( hugs Jan xx