Best Hoyden Poems

I scream for ice cream she shouted until her lungs burned 
she was a tomboy with a strawberry birth mark on her cheek  
she ran like she owned gumby legs and Popeye arms of steel 
never wiped a dish in her life, she was...

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Magnolia-honey air, heavy with heat
Kudzu vines twining, knitting the city
Spanish moss masks the old hoyden,
and she manage to think herself pretty

Shutters, and fans lazily turning
keep the suffocating heat of afternoon at bay
Lanais and balconies, sanctuary given
Folks resting until it is cool enough to play

Languid lazy...

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O, that daylight could command
when I sit with writing pen in hand
That verse could flood my tablet
and let morning become my habit

Then like others I would at last be,
muse's heartbeat set live and free
No sad hoyden, no mysterious frump
who quivers in darkness like a lump

Prisms...

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The people who love me.
I'm a crazy girl for them.
The people who hate me.
I'm a lousy gal for them.
The people who ruined my life.
I'm a broken reed for them.
The people who upbraid me.
I'm a hoyden for them.
The people who poke fun at me.
I'm a duffer...

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