two boys and two girls
dressed in sacks --
rough spartan rasps
against soft skin --
gasps:
egg yolk and syrup in ruffled hair
flour shower and laughter
washed with water melon cuts
and yells
and above the commotion
his
very serious
sky blue eyes
my mouth a rose rosette
on a canvas of dirt
Author notes
Initiation: Head Prefects in my senior year. Our school blazers were dark green, with gold, white and black stripes ...
Photo left to right: Head Prefects, Cillié High Scool: Ronald Mulder (Deputy Head Prefect), Dr. H.E. Fox (School Principal), Cornelius Bakkes (Head Prefect), Tersia Kruger (Head Prefect), Mr J.J. Naudé (Deputy School Principal), Myra Herman (Deputy Head Prefect).
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A contest entry
- flashback 2 by sideways hourglass.
470 points, ended November 5, 15 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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What an interesting recollection...
And I thought you had some clever phrasing here, and the wordplay was great.
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Thank you very much ...
for my trophy.
Cute new photo.
Love
Myra
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Food Fight fantasy!
Beautiful few words that elongate visions of youth and why not all is wasted on the young in love.
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They do look natty!
Initiation can be a serious thing.
My daughter uses egg yolk in her hair sometimes but not syrup
(as far as I know anyway!)
enjoyed this, hope it was worth it....
d
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Hi, If only we could laugh today as we did in those years, a lovely refreshing poem, loved it, all the best in the contest. Di
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My imagination went to work on your imagery and then I realised...what wonderful treasures memories are; they are joyous and tinged golden.
Thanks for posting this
Life is good,
Love, Peter
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