Nette Onclaud Poet Free verse

Through the 80s

A time for many a part-time passion, like
the discarded  skin of  Esprit  jeans and low-hip  waistline
baring pierced navel with flavor of a chase on the run…
would he dare confess real love as the world tolled
for Lady Diana and Charles?

You with me… moon to sun, fire to burn our eyes…
I swing on an illusion and steal the time away,
rustling along a Mustang’s back seat, while
some 8-CD tract pleads, "Do you think I’m sexy,’’
dipping in steams of instant affection.

How deep-cheeked your thrills
like Indiana Jones , knocking me
off-balance: and I, a fool ignoring the pain 
that you may never Stand By Me,
never in blinks of thousand stars,
a recycled tune melting in the sand
now you’re just ozone’s hole...

I wrap the scenes along Route 25,
as bittersweet time passes by. Alone.


Kelly Deschler's Decades Contest
``Do You Think I'm Sexy 
and Stand By Me-- top 80s songs

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Eve Roper March 25, 2015 at 11:17 PM Congratulations on your win a 7. Blessings dear friend Eve

Ralph Sergi March 23, 2015 at 2:08 PM Wow nette! you really personified the 80's to suit you at that time. Congratulations on your win.

Sandra Haight March 23, 2015 at 11:49 AM Such a great poem to bring us back to the 80's, Nette. I enjoyed the trip through your fine write. Hugs, Sandra

Poet Destroyer A March 22, 2015 at 11:06 PM NETTE, Congratulations on your wonderful win. Always ~LINDA~

Kelly Deschler March 22, 2015 at 7:52 PM A wonderful poem, Nette! It brought me back to the decade when I was born - the awesome 80's... Congrats on the win!

Debbie Duncan February 24, 2015 at 10:45 PM I so remember the 80's you did an awesome job here. Love the reminiscing lines :)

Andrea Dietrich February 24, 2015 at 12:25 AM I just LOVE this and all its references to the 80's that you so cleverly inserted into it. you really did a great poem here, nette. Way to go!

Carly Lalion February 17, 2015 at 2:46 AM You went deep and heart-strung with this sensitive write. A time of change and temporary desires! An ace 0f a poem.

Ken Carroll February 16, 2015 at 6:19 PM Awesome reflective write Nette.. Kindles the imagination..

Anne-Lise Andresen February 16, 2015 at 1:09 PM - Many sweet memories ...... time passes ... and we get gray hair - Lovely poem dear Nette ! - hugs // Anne-Lise :)

Monterey Sirak February 16, 2015 at 9:12 AM Fantastic reflections of an incredible time that has passed. Brings back memories.

S.Zaynab Kamoonpuri February 16, 2015 at 8:50 AM Wow woah woah, this was innovative, attractive, sensational! The expressions are mindblowing as u reminisce someone sucked in by the black hole. Great to read u again,

Frederic Parker February 15, 2015 at 9:17 PM A lot of reflections from a mirror a generation lived..thanks for the ride down memory lane it was worth the trip my friend

Paul Callus February 15, 2015 at 4:01 PM Weeee magical flashbacks to the past that charmed our heart and soul...stoked our emotions and kept us many a time walking on air! That was mostly passion of the past...much of it gone with the wind, scattered in time's desert land. Your final two lines bring us back to the present...down to earth. #7 hugs // paul

Tim Smith February 15, 2015 at 3:04 PM You bring back a lot of nostalgia nette...many great things we loved have long passed...we still have great memories and if you go to Vegas you can still see the Rod Stewart impersonators as sexy as ever...hugs Tim