Barry White's Memorable Verse for the Lovelorn..

Take it Off
What?
Baby,take it all off
Don't be ridiculous
I want you the way you came into the world
What is wrong with you?
I don't wanna feel no clothes
You've been at the Schnapps again
I don't wanna see no panties
Which reminds me did you bring the washing in?
and take off that brassiere my dear
I haven't worn a bra in twenty years
Do you have something to tell me?
Eveybody's gone
That's a pity
We're going to take the receiver off the phone
No,I'm expecting a call from Felicity
because baby, you and me-heh
this night,we're gonna get it on
Did you feed the cat ?
to Love's Serenade
What! I'm not putting on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik at this hour

POW PROMPT 5

POW PROMPT 5

' The Dresden clock continued ticking on the mantepiece
And the footman sat upon the dining-table
Holding the second housemaid on his knees--
Who had always been so careful while her mistress lived '

From ' Aunt Helen' by T.S. Eliot

Looking forward to some splattered diverse brilliance next Wednesday!

Crushed by Love

completely captivated
overwhelmed by the
irresistible smell colour
and texture of my larger
than life sized love
warned by all
that this obsession
would lead to my demise

I know why some of us are
drawn to damage
drawn to danger
drawn to dross
like moths to the flame

I know how to read
I know they are right
I try
I try
to resist
to grapple
to struggle
too late

POW PROMPT 4

POW PROMPT 4

Well it's time to find your inner child and settle back for story time with Rall
sprouting a whole lot of silliness.

The Rabbit's Tale

Tea parties are torture
with Alice
a pretty little girl
of scorpion heart
whose cutting comments
and withering looks
can cause guests to disappear
into their shoes,tip a saucer on end
and reduce a rabbit to a pipsqueak

She was much nicer before meeting
blue caterpillar and meanie mushroom
spending far too much time with them
down in the glade
Her eyes are ring'd smoked hookah blue...
from rolling too many bluebells and hollyhocks

Constantly squeezing and pummeling me
until I bruise blue she insists on my
presence at her afternoon teas with misfits
sporting strange hats with price tags
grinning cats and tweedle dumdee twins
when all I really want to do is race off frantically
in a waist coat with a pocket watch
just like any other abnormal rabbit

If I crouch down very still
I might get lucky and disappear
Too bad about these ears
Oh crikey, she is stroking my scut
I can feel myself blushing pink from the feet up
Where the hell is that ' drink me ' bottle?

Night Walk...

we walk past doyles
past the wafting aromas
of lobster thermidor
and garlic bead
past the dinghies
on rusty chains
past the tinkling sail boats
never failing to gasp
at the aching beauty
of the marquesite brooch
set against black velvet
in the distance
past the fishermen cottages
past the intrusive mansions
picking posies for the kitchen vase
and on to the cove
we stare at the ferries gliding by
slowly silently like fluorescent
caterpillars
we stare at the floating marker buoys
and without saying anything
we know it will break our hearts
to leave this

TOREADOR

TOREADOR...Wordle

The pattern on the crumpled caparison
was the same as Marquesa's outfit
Taking a discreet sip of absinthe tincture
secreted in her purse she performed the practiced
aristocratic wave to the crowd
living proof of a futile class system

Pressing the flesh
meet and greet
she fondled the horse's muzzle
smiled at the matador
who doffed his montero
and breathed a sigh of relief
that this part of the ceremony went off
without a glitch
The horse, the only sapient presence in the arena
considered doing a bolt but capitulated
when he felt the cold steel of the sword
destined for the bull

POW PROMPT 4

Write a poem as a response to the painting above ' Feet Beneath The Table ' by Charles Blackman (Australian Painter.)
You could assume a character if you wish. I know I am identifying with at least two . Gosh,
Wednesdays come around quickly. So best leave you to get on with it . I can feel a form coming on. No, lost it. Not in form after all. Looking forward to reading you then. A toute a l'heure or toodle-oo amigos!