Best Strauss Poems
Whole people know my story
Feel terribly not so sorry
Made a crazy poems about myself
Just want to put them on my shelf.
Here’s another poem from my lips
Giving lessons from my trips
I’ll keep on writing till end of the day
Though I’ll not receive any good pay.
I can write thousands of words
Write something about your precious Lords
Spend a time right here at my side
My mind is writing from my deepest inside.
It’s not about glory or fame
A passion burning that is so hard to tame
Whether I have good poems or bad,
It’s only way for me not to get sad.
They called me incredible “Lei Strauss”
One who keeps trying and bagging the cross.
I won’t be blinded by your light
All I know my poems are getting to right
I have a fear of drowning in deep waters, dark and cold;
I dream the waves are parted revealing Death's threshold.
I wonder, trembling in my bed, if another life I've known;
is there a body beneath the sea, dissolved, bone of my bone?
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
We boarded the Titanic, her maiden voyage from the shore,
just the two of us together, me and my husband Isidore.
Grandly cradled on the ocean within the ship of dreams,
unaware an ice tower waited in the frigid, black extremes.
Roast squab and French ice creams, champagne and caviar
were the first class luxuries, sailing on beneath the stars.
Near midnight the vessel shuddered as though wounded in the heart;
we waited captain's orders to load the lifeboats, disembark.
"Women first!" the crew commanded; older men could also go,
but Isidore would not depart, the truest gentleman I know.
He entreated me to leave the ship, but like Ruth of long ago,
I replied, "We've lived together many years. Where you go, I go."
We faced Death as we faced life, companions to the end . . .
climbing the staircase to heaven, hand in hand with my best friend.
The story of Isidore and Ida Strauss is true; they were first class passengers on the Titanic. Isidore was co-owner of Macy's. My connection to Ida is fiction.
The grand staircase on the Titanic was called "the staircase to Heaven."
Faye Lanham Gibson
Copyright, June 22, 2014
Full length frontal flesh pressed into half-awake spouse.
Smoldering and smelted as one Blue Danube strauss.
The bluebirds twitter a blithesome tune of Wintergray.
Warmth of coffee, sweet pastries and a tulip’d bouquet.
1/11/2020
Richard Georg Strauss
gave pleasure&much else
Music for Diaghilor ballet
for theatre of his day
The Strauss family dynasty
maestros indeed all three
Johann Joseph & of course Richard
both musicians& bard