There was a young girl who danced with her cat,
but she just wanted to comb out a matte;
they would whirl, swirl, twirl and spin,
a contest neither would win;
exhausted- on the floor they lay quite flat !
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February 21, 2021
Poetry/Limerick/The Cat Dance
Copyright Protected, ID 02-
All Rights Reserved, 2021, Constance La France
Categories:
comb out, fun,
Form: Limerick
My hair fills the circumference of itself
And takes up space with little help
It goes the only way it knows
In tightly bound cornrows
In church the preacher talks about my hair
To entertain everyone there
Saying 'comb out your unchristian naps!'
Someone says 'Amen' and claps
I cannot change the cross-heavy volume
But no one hears over the organ's tune
I turn the locks into a twist
Can't wear my church hat with hair like this
My hair fills the circumference of my life
Till there is space for nothing else about me.
Categories:
comb out, beauty, hair, race, racism,
Form: Sonnet
I’m sad to see you going any time this year,
after those years that we’ve been together;
we’ve formed relationships in various settings
like a treasure trove in human understanding.
It’s a hybrid of sorts, an enriching experience,
a victory that sounds like an interaction;
day after day brings to birth God’s invitation,
love one another as his major criterion.
Along with the wounds of being human,
God’s grace abounds in monstrous proportions;
the path that leads to answer his calling
makes sense in deeds that say human actions.
To comb out from our nitty-gritty life,
those living verses of perseverance;
heaps of struggles that we’ve gone through
yet, we’ve stood still and face another day.
With Christ as our center, hope and inspiration,
we’ve promised to keep that we’ll meet again
that someday towards springtime in our lives
our quest for reconnecting will bring us one.
Categories:
comb out, inspirational, day,
Form: Ballad
DRAGON ZODIAC ZONES
If not for this contest
I would not have comb out astrology
But, I wanted to please Nette
So, I sat down, investigate my Zodiac sign.
Water dragon, that is me!
My daughter calls me “rooster cuts off in its head!”
Fits the character of the dragon:
Full of energy, free-spirited, eccentric, dauntless
Flamboyant, colorful, passionate, stubborn, powerful.
Twenty four hours in a day, not enough for the dragon
Multi -tasking is the game
Clinic job 5 days a week, networking on a weekend
Taking care of love ones,
Poetry by night, unusual exciting phenomena.
Water dragon
I am free and uninhibited
Throw me in a cage: lock me, chain me, restrain me with all your might
But I fly with the cage, fearlessly, magically
My ferocious wings soar to the unknown!
The Westerners want to slay me, to kill me is futile
My intense power bounce back, my fiery mouth devastating!
The Orientals love me, my pictures hang in their abode, my body girates in parades
Dragon, I am
Deliverer of good fortunes!
Dalila Agtani
6/25/11
Entered in a contest sponsored by Nette Onclaud
Name of the contest: Zodiac Zones
Categories:
comb out, lifeme, love, me, ,
Form: Free verse