[Link> Quadrille #180: Pouring Out Our Poems
A BOY LEFT WAITING
He lies on the new dock and listens to the water
As it gently spanks the shore in contempt
In the midst of this solitary scolding
He can do nothing but think back on that dream
And recall her soft face and tender ways
~ D-FensDogG
Great poem. Mr. Linky is pretty easy. Just copy the URL from the post that you just finished and go back and click on the Mr. Linky box. It will ask for your name and the URL. Then you accept some conditions...hopefully nothing too dangerous since I don't think I've really read them ever...then click okay or enter or whatever they ask for!
ReplyDeleteThank you, CHRISTINE!
DeleteThis sort of thing isn't normally my bailiwick, but I thought: What the helck! I don't want to be stuck in a rut.
I'll take a look at Mr. Linky (although he was my Trigonometry teacher in high school, and we never got along. ;^D )
~ D-FensDogG
Captivating poem, Stephen, full of pathos. And I love the image of spanking the shore in contempt. Such a brilliant line!
ReplyDeleteWell-gee, thanks, DEBBIE!
DeleteI don't know what I was doing. On a whim I decided to post something *completely different*. The poem had to be exactly 44 words and contain the word "water" or some form of that word.
I remembered an old poem I wrote in 1982 in which I mentioned water. (It was based on an actual dream I'd had.) So, digging it up, I found that I could excerpt just the second stanza from the poem and try to let it stand alone. (It was 45 words, so I just cut out a single "And" and it worked.)
The last poem I wrote was 1993 or '94. I then decided that "tough guys don't dance" and that real men "don't mix poetry with their whiskey".
:^D
~ D-FensDogG
What's this! I wondered and then I clicked that link and realized. Nice poem that fit the parameters of the challenge. I've added this new blogger to my list of BOTB participants. Looking forward to what she will have to offer.
ReplyDeleteLee
Thanks, LEE. Just something to do that was different... and already written decades ago.
DeleteSee ya tomorrow.
~ D-FensDogG
Sounds like Fun! So I just sent you two of 'em!
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BROTHER SIXGUN SLINGER ~
DeleteThe E-agle has landed.
~ D-FensDogG
Captivating!
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