Society's Questionable Females

While the town gossips...

Society's Questionable Females

 

Some women are daring and too intriguing to be

Called normal;

Rather these females are often called insane

By many respectable citizens,

Their eyes will always reveal their old fire

In their old age.

They remember doing things differently

Than others and talk about their past

Experiences with laughter and mystic.

Stories about cutting out black hearts

Instead of red ones on that romantic

Holiday in February,

Or rescuing an injured animal along

The backroads,

Or taking on guys

with a speedy car race,

Or daring to follow a dream and

Leave town to start a new life

With a tough outspoken man

That everyone else has despised

But her,

It felt like true love, but,

Instead, it became nothing

Behind his lingering smoke

Screen, except, her

Heartache and misery that follows

Along forever inside her head,

It is like a deep dark lake

With ice glazing it.

These tough women let it go,

Eventually,

Because they are like Amelia Earhart,

They scrape their slates clean and pristine,

And wade to the other side

Through knee-deep mud,

Black waters turn to clear blue

Even though it is hard to reach the bottom

They keep going avoiding the dangerous rocks

And not letting the falling snow stop them,

In their future, they reach a spectacular place

Where they join others to watch

The waxing moon rise above stars the size

Of the smallest planets,

Because they never fall permanently.

Despite their hardships in life,

It is the reason for their whole trip,

This experience of theirs--unique to them,

During their careers where some of them

Wear pressed suits and shiny baubles.

Their magnificent stars are still

Overhead while others watch,

The glorious moon follows them,

Until death, no matter how much

They show-off or push their adrenaline

They remain, foolish humans, in some peoples'

Eyes.

Eventually, something kills them,

Ending their sparkling dreams and these

Are choked to nothing but an echo

In someone's memory. --J. E. Cook © 2017

 

   

 

 

Author's Note

Thanks for reading!

Reviews

[DarkFable]

Kinda depressing at the end, but very beautiful and true nonetheless. I really enjoyed reading it!

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

Thanks for reading and giving a review here! So many people read them but don't comment on these poems and it is nice to hear from the readers and get their perspective on how they felt as they read. :)

[Ruth]

Wow, this is really cool love...I really love it...the memories become distorted over time, a whisper becomes a story and the story becomes something that never was...all the lives assumed but rarely understood or even known, brilliant...

[Josie E. Cook M. A.]

THanks!
:)

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe women had become foolish as men. Now want to fight in wars. A wise man don't want to fight and die in some war. I liked the poetry. I'm glad women are showing strength in sports and other activities. My opinion is. Women control the world. They teach love and kindness to the children. Thank you Josie for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote