What do you reckon Venus of Milos was doing when she was fully limbed?
Was she thinking
Deep thoughts
Holding the apple
Measuring the gravity
Of her life?
Was she, like Aphrodite,
Poised with a shield
About to march off
Into a battle
Confidence writ on her face?
Was she a Muse
Putting on her work clothes
Getting ready to go
Inspire some artist
To create works of beauty?
Was she Sappho
The Poetess
reaching out for her pen
to finally complete
one of her poems?
Was she spinning a wheel
To make a tapestry of Dreams
Or to weave time
Winding and unwinding
Moments lost and found?
Was she playing a Lyre
Singing timeless songs
Of loss and triumphs
Great loves and heartbreaks
And exciting adventures?
Or, dear reader,
Was she just a woman
Like you and me
Trying to go about her life
The best she can?
Wonder why it's the middle finger
A middle finger seems so offensive to me
Think it should have been named Butch
Or Milos or perhaps Tony
There's no mistaking middle finger though
Wouldn't be surprised if you wore a dress
Talk about a feminine name
No surprise if you carried a purse
Okay maybe I'm being a bit silly
Names don't dictate things these days
But Margaret doesn't sound macho either
What bout a plain middle finger what'd ya say
Milos’ laser serve crosses the court in less than half a second
yet in that eternal moment, Novac sends it back
often just as hard, other times soft and slow
relentlessly selecting among thousands
of possible combinations
of location and pace
the one Milos can
not return.
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1/29/2020
Melding Muses Contest
BTW Djokvoc won the whole thing
A maiden named Stephanopoulos
Married Milos Papadopoulos
At the canopy
All the guests could see
The bride dancing down the aisle ~ topless!
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