Black Widow

Enjambment effort, and the last one for today. :)

 

Black Widow (Pretty Girl)

 

Pretty girl

With a highlight smile

Dressed all in black,

Brilliant eyes

Full

Of guile,

Won’t you

Stay

For a while?

 

Full of laughter, without

A care,

Stalk the streets,

Panther-esque grace,

And watch people

Stare.

 

Ruby lips and

Smoking eyes,

Put your makeup on

With a careless hand,

Look all the pretty ones

Over, see the endless

possibilities,

What they can do for you -

Oh, what fun!

- and what you

can do for them.

 

Pretty girl

With greedy lips,

Swallow all they’ve got

To give

And take the rest -

You know you deserve it

- after all, you’re

Simply the best!

 

Feel the envy

In every eye that

Follows,

Sharpen that walk just

A bit

More,

Twist those slim,

Leather-clad

Hips

and flash

A smirk,

Keep your back straight & head

High,

And when you look em

In the eye,

Share all your knowledge

Of carnal things

With the graceful arch

Of a jet black brow.

Look em up,

Then down, shake your head

Yes or no,

I don’t think so,

And watch

Them flush

As you walk away.

 

You’re the pretty

girl

Taking everyone for a whirl,

And all they ever

Wanna do

Is take you for a ride,

Just a simple screw

&

Nothing more,

But when they hear that lilting

Laugh,

They can never do things by

Half,

Or settle

For just this

Once.

 

So

Come on, pretty

Girl, take em for

All they’ve

Got; all you gotta do

Is give em one night

Of burning desire

And they’ll be yours for life.

 

Laurie

Jan 29 ‘06

(enjambment effort)

 

 

Reviews

[djdopeslap]

This reminds me of Cathy from East of Eden. *shivers*
Very well written. I liked the way you divided the stanzas.

[Kate Wing]

This is very good. I can feel the lust directed and the carelessness of the widow. I like writing that draws on instincts such as lust. It is well done.

[Ed Rector]

i always enjoy a poem that references a women as the black widow... such as motley crue's black widow... this has much emotion to it... well done...

[laughingwolf]

painful truths therein, laurie... well scribed