IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : Part VI
If you pull a long face
On great Government Shut-Down Day
Just think who'll replace
The Walls of Jéricho on Shout-Down Day
Yet if you pull a long face
While Dow Jones on downward swing stay
Just you wait to see how whose face
Wails to pull Wall down Méjico Way
If you then keep pulling a long face
Captain pulls selfie-face in Mid-East mélée
Never you mind the hotting-up furnace
Ice-cubes in high-balls melt during any fray
Yet if you pulled a long face
All year long to New Year's Day
You'd have pulled your pretty Rahab face
Only from deaf ear to another Joshua'd say
So if you must pull a long face
While all around you the damned World boils away
Just you keep on pulling that long face
Never you mind what lies in store past Doomsday
© T. Wignesan - Paris, December 28, 2018
Categories:
hotting, allegory, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sitting by the beach the lights of yesterday grow dim
while the calming waves of terranas caress my reverie,
the hotting sands bequeath their perfect light;
A lull in time, a moment of grace
and soon I apprehend it all with none;
Nature's casting light
and the deedle doddle of my skin
beneath the burning sun;
Palm trees breathe and I could swear
this day was made for me..
Right here on this beach the world falls away
and I'm too far to inch recall the boister of my kind
Befitted for the sea I long for no one else but him
Tonight,
they'll be a little wine? a yellow dress?
a dance mayhap? Romance?...
May 29, 2018
Categories:
hotting, imagination,
Form: Free verse