T Wignesan Poet Burlesque

Sing Haughty Yacht-Y Yea

bayboats purse seine whey
journey yearlong gay
laddy inured dry up
haughty yachty yea
 
mildred mayhem dewlap
naughty jaunty jay
sons caught in car capers
haughty yachty yea

vicar baking in butterfat
orphan boy screwed in larder
bluejay frollic jane
and a haughty yachty yea
 
bombs in bay bombard
dickson singsick cockpit
french chicks s’envoient en l'air*
oh a haughty yachty yea
 
idols jailed in temples
choked in garlandy incense
priestly eyedance pose
yes a haughty yachty yea
 
masons’ mildewy masters
with compass stone and pilasters
plan solomon’s might on earth
yea sing haughty yachty yea

royal houses love in stables
lords and ladies love in regalia
loving ones love in limbo
cry haughty yachty yea
 
dote on damsels in december
hey yachty haughty yea
make them deliver in september
ho yickety yackety yea eh
 
 * "s'envoient en l'air": French, literally, for "throwing legs up in the air"; in France - guess, if you can - this phrase means: ???
 
©T.Wignesan - Paris, May 4, 1997

[from the collection : longhand notes: a binding of poems. Paris: 1999]

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T Wignesan January 6, 2014 at 1:25 AM Hi Linda! Thanks very much for the kudos and for the first peek at you, yourself. It's morning hereabouts and pretty capricious weather the past few weeks. Hope you get out of cold's way that's having a beastly bash at you guys over the Atlantic. Sleep tight. Every good wish. Wignesan P.S. Dostoïevski wrote best after his Siberian servitude of four Underground years, and Cervantes after his five Saharan years of hell.

Poet Destroyer A January 5, 2014 at 9:22 PM T Wignesan, .... CONGRATULATIONS:) on having your poem featured on the soups HOME PAGE. A nice way in starting the year:)- Goodnight poet friend <3 =LINDA