I'm ready to go
With my new pair of
Pristine white roller skates
Categories:
rollerskating, freedom, life,
Form: Free verse
Rhinos on roller skates
Who would create them?
The skates, not the rhinos.
Better yet, who would fit their feet?
Would they come to the rollerskating store?
If they did, would they trample the other customers?
What customers? My aunt asks. No one shops anymore.
Thanks to online shopping, I fear that she might be right.
If I see a bunch of rhinos heading for the mall
I will be the first one to turn my car around and watch.
From afar, with a video camera with a long lens.
For I have never met a rhino who liked me.
Categories:
rollerskating, animal,
Form: Free verse
She was a beauty
Rollerskating was the rage
Falling so often
Traversing the oval pattern in ungainly fashion
Just to prove to her that I had a manly passion.
She, however, did not take my failures on the floor too kindly...jilting me
While her older, wiser, sister helped me through that night of terror.
Her sister took me by the hand and showed me the way.
Without speaking a word she shared her courage with me,
As around that floor she led me on my legs of clay.
So many firsts that night still hearken to me
First Date... First Skate... First Women... to be etched in my memory.
Categories:
rollerskating, anxiety, innocence, life, memory,
Form: Quintain (English)