Best Sheila Poems

MY DANCE WITH SHEILA

With firm resolveI I strode across the hall
To where the girls were standing in a row
My focus: Sheila, object of heart’s call
In fervent hope that I might be her beau

The scene was set: the annual ‘soirée’
(Intoned as ‘sworry’ in our dialective)
In school...

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My heart bursts with pride
As she receives her honors
Third grade excellence....

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You are a vision
Of loveliness, poise, goodness
We are proud of you....

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She plays the piano at our local church
She was a first teacher who I did perch
She prays for me when I need a prayer
She talks to me like she truly does care

This teacher that I speak of so kindly
Is a loving guide who shines brightly
Sent...

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Shattered drimz is what i have 
when i think of you because i 
drimz of us being together but 
i have messed things up. 
Hours have passed by but i will 
always remember the 1st time 
i looked into your eyes and 
realized how special...

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Sheila heard that her husband was on his sailboat.
He is with another woman in the middle of the afternoon?
He was supposed to be at work.
Several friends called to tell her.

She had a friend who lived above the lake.
Asked if she could use her home to...

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She looked tame, and the entire breakfast area had men in it.
I sat on a high stool directly across from her; we are in a hotel lobby.
I did not expect her to speak, but she did. “Where are you from?”
I told her Kansas City. She...

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I asked Sheila one day
"Why do you love me?"
She said,"I do not know?"
"You dazzle me, brilliant
You love me, but why
You do not know, a poet hmm?"
"I am not a poet, I am a woman"
"Woman loves because she loves"
"And no mathematics"
She crossed the street
And went to...

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Sheila and Tony were friends at work, nothing more.
Discussing silly things, exchanging quips and tips with each other.
They had their own peculiar gestures and funny looks.
It was noticed by the others, but they were mostly older women.
Wise sages who understood the leaning in language before...

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Sheila’s co-workers are abuzz.
She is wearing another Christmas mask
I cannot believe it 
She has worn a different one for twelve days in a row

Rudolph, Frosty, Dasher, Icicles, Christmas trees, snowflakes,
Elves, Santa, Mrs. Claus, North pole, gifts, wrapping paper
What could be left? What has she not...

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Sheila Bee turned herself into six clones.
Relatives got scared; things got comical.
They got a fantastic discount on their cell phones.
But their food bills were astronomical!

They played tricks on their neighbors for weeks.
Showed up as a mob at all her play dates. 
Soon known in town...

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Sheila was blowsy, frowsy, frumpish, dowdy.
matching her unkempt messy, sloppy abode.
gone to seed, meanies said in a nasty way.
we kids saw through Sheila’s shabby drabness.
she was entertaining and fun, and she liked children.
best of all, she had a good heart and terrific stories.
meanies could not...

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Most beautiful creature I had ever seen
More gorgeous than ebony pumas or wild wolves
I was fascinated, and intimidated;  she was the Sheila.

There was danger in knowing her.
She was the ultimate circus star; a performer.
An artesian, her traveling RV was full of hand painted beauty.

The...

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Sheila grew up in a shanty town
Met a shanty man in woods round
Lived in a shanty shack for quite a while
But her shanty man never did truly smile

So she moved on to a shanty boat
Mississippi living easy as a float
Sheila took a job in a...

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Sheila cleaned the microwave
And one kitchen counter and the stove top
There are ninety-three empty boxes in the corner.
She congratulated herself on what she had done
And then took a nap
Living in a mess is exhausting
This is her third nap today
Tomorrow she plans to empty the dishwasher....

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