She wears a sun hat but achieves more
than foiling the Noon Star's intentions.
Straw diamond holes create cookie cutter light,
baking the shapes into pruned skin.
Cracking slightly in a forced smile.
He extends a passive hand
to envelop the withered dandelion
her stem breaking at the watered seams
but is she beautiful
dangling there,
focusing all of her fortune
on a thread,
weaved faded green hairs?
She puts down her clippers
the first time since ten A.M.
accepts an invitation
to lose the squirming friends she made,
untrimmed hedges,
tired sun,
sweating mane.
Introduces him to simple beauty.
A complacent seed flourishing beneath
the summer dew, congealing as it tangles
the wisps of white hair
winding in and out of her sun hat.
The boots trail steps taken in dance,
a reminiscence or gifts for birds to ponder
when intermission catches two hearts,
beckoning them back into conditioned air.
Retirement of romance reigns once again.
A contest entry
- Simple Beauty by Danna Hobart.
300 points, ended October 14, 2007, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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Your title should be More Than Sun's Silhouettes. "Than" is used when making a comparrison of some sort, ex: more than this, less than that...
"Then" is used when listing things, ex: first this, then that...
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I hereby predict that your wonderful words will be studied and heard for generations to come . . . you have an incredible gift Chelsea, use it well!!!!!!!!!
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Alex,
you did not type this poem, you painted it with love and affection, this was truly sweet and eternal in love's sensibilities.
Gander
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Yippee!
You hit a homerun with this one, Alexandra. I have never heard the Sun described as "Noon Star". Kudos for originality.
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