Short Rayon Poems

I love being rayon,
 So cool in tropic's heat,
 I dry fast when wet, wrinkle free!
 Audacious hues surprise,
 A medley for your eyes.
 Fabric soft as butterfly wings.

11-6-17
© Connie Marcum Wong

* I was too late to enter the contest...

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She was a lady in waiting back in the day, merry and gay.
The dressed her in fashionable robes in her heyday.
She is a magnet for butterflies, faeries, dragonflies and moths.
They love her exotic dresses made of silk and rayon cloths.
Butterflies surround her, and faeries prance past her too.
We love her warm colors of pink, lemon, peach, lavender and blue....

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The best gift I received was a cover 
In 1975 from my mother
You are thinking ‘that’s a terrible presents’ 
But back then we were cold, hungry peasants. 
It was fluffy polyester with rayon
Or was it pink polyester and nylon?
It was labeled a ‘velvety soft mink’
Never washed it became the ‘pink stink’
I would turn myself into a taco
And feel like I’d won life’s big lotto....

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