it's not hard to get to know me

inspired by .serah.

it's not hard
to get to know me
underneath
my public face
there is a naughty girl
a haughty girl --
I found it funny
when my boss said to me
"you never swear,"
she doesn't
know me and she
never will --
not like you,
or the poets in the cafe' --
I can't ignore a stray apostrophe
and I love a little nasty
again and again
I'll dance in the rain
with butterflies
and eat dragons for breakfast
when I am in the mood.
if the parishioners
only knew
what I was thinking
when I kneel in the pew  --
Sundays after seeing you.
it's not hard
to get to know me
but, at least in public,
there's only
so much I will do.

Author's Note

inspired by a conversation with .serah

Reviews

[Jon Roggie]

So, I guess you speak your mind? Now, I just need to use the random apostrophe. This could be fun, my friend!

[Lyn Anderson]

It would be so fun to go apostrophe hunting again. Sadly, Frieda's supreme liberty with the apostrophe is gone -- and some people take offense at minor corrections, so I must be careful with the comments.:)

[Jon Roggie]

I would just add one for your benefit.

[Lyn Anderson]

Redzone does that occasionally. And loves it when I notice.:)

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

I absolutely love the eating dragons for breakfast! In my feistier moments I have had to pick a dragon bone or two out of my teeth. It is amazing how we bare out naked souls to people here. Some works we might never show to the people who think they know us. Your work speaks to me. So glad I found it. Love the videos you have posted with them.

[Lyn Anderson]

Oh thank you thank you I feel the same about you. There are some things that happen to people that connect them in an intimate way despite geography and different upbringing. I like to pair my poems with music, since music is very important to me.

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

Well said. The music is but a different expression and combined offers a synergy that makes a powerful impact.

[JC]

Ha! Feckin' kindred soul you are, not just to me but to all the insane that have ever picked up a quill, etched into stone, tapped keys as the possessed recorders of times mind. Thanks for letting us into your mind, the true mind we don't see everyday.

[Lyn Anderson]

awesome thanks for dropping in.

[Lydia Shutter]

I'll dance in the rain
with butterflies
and eat dragons for breakfast
when I am in the mood.

What a carefree wonderful image this creates for me. We all are multi-faceted beings. We show one "face" to the public and quite another in private with trusted friends. Those other people don't have to get to know you. You know yourself and that, my friend, is what counts! I liked this one a lot. Lydi**

[Lyn Anderson]

Aww thanks, I had fun with it.

[h d e rushin]

this poem is about the immune, the physiological immunity that every living soul carries around with them
that allows them to resist and even prevent the development of most chronic psychosis's. What kind of
person is anybody, really? When strobe lights were all the rage at dance parties, even the people who
couldn't dance, danced. And underneath every church girl dress is a pair of pantyhose that begs to
be ripped off.

"I cant ignore a stray apostrophe
and I love a little nasty again and again".

Perhaps poems are a sort of foreplay-word-play, just more everlasting. The suggestions here
are both womanly and unyielding; demonstratively confessional yet un-apologetic //beautifully done....dana

[Lyn Anderson]

i love that - pantyhose begging to be ripped off. You, get the underneath more than anyone I have had the pleasure of reading. Thank you.

[highonwords]

sounds like a very interesting person, no one person will ever get to know another completely - we're all like the subject in this poem

steph

[Lyn Anderson]

For sure, most people are -- thanks as always. Now it is off to that pesky job in a few minutes.:)

[barleygirl]

This is one of my favorite poems of the week (& I read tons) . . . this is so true & so playful & so filled with imaginative ways to SHOW us the real "you" that the narrator seems eager to share. I also feel that people get a very different impression of me, based on my public persona. But then my "wild side" is so well expressed by your uninhibited comparisons & word choices. This is really awesome in every way.

[Lyn Anderson]

Well thank you very much. I appreciate the visit and review and am delighted to share.

[V]

You've written down my life. ;) Many people act differently on the outside from what's inside of them. I often am confronted with the sentence " I would have never thought you do/say/whatever something like this" , it's when my hidden side leaks a bit, sort of. I find it amusing but also disturbing in a way.
Well-written piece.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, and I owe it, in part to the intriguing .serah. who recently came across my path

[V]

It's so nice that you get inspired so much from other writers here :)

[. serah .]

-- hahahaha... i like your zany side a lot and am so very glad to know that your little girl prankster heart is intact... -- this piece is brimming with an infectious zest... thank you for writing it and sharing it... and i'm especially glad the "parishioners" are not in the know... lol... :p

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks, a lot of people who know me well like that side of me. Those who don't, don't stay my friends for long.

[. serah .]

-- you're very welcome... and i'm really happy you thought me worthy of knowing your sparkling side... it fills me with joy... :)