Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Complexity

MAGPIE 164


Spring, 1935 by Kuzma Petrov=-Vodin
Photograph courtesy Tess Kinkaid, Magpie Tales

He watches me too closely
Silently
Intensely
I wish I wasn't here

She sits there much too stiffly
Boardlike
Corrugated
I wish I hadn't asked her



Barbara M Lake ©
Trinidad WI
April 2013





8 comments:

  1. How much fun is your poem? Tons!!!

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  2. Interesting take on the painting. Neither of them wanting to be there. Never thought of that possibility. Very imaginative.

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  3. I love this, your choice of language is perfect =)

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  4. A perfect reading of the painting.

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  5. Good one. I like that you included both views.

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  6. We've all been there! Nice take.

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  7. Had to chuckle. We probably all can recall at least one bad date just like that. Well done, Bee.

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