Friday 10 February 2012

Lucy's Pretty Socks


Lucy is a girl with many friends;
Twenty pairs of pretty socks sitting impatiently
In the top drawer of her clothes cabinet
Anxiously waiting for her to come home from school
To play.
They jump out at her,
Recognizing the feel of her excited fingers
As she pulls on the drawer handle
And accepts the advances
Of only one beloved pair,
Slipping them onto her feet
In the same way that she imagines
The Queen would royally adorn herself
In the softest winter stockings.
Yellow is always the first to say a sunny hello,
Almost outshining Green
As he inquires if she remembered
To place the plastic bottle in the recycle bin today,
Red offering her a band aid to cover the awful
Cut on her big toe
Which she got from running home too fast,
Blue ecstatically telling tales of his adventures at sea
Where he encountered a shark that swam right through him!
Lilac can barely be heard, sighing contentedly,
Pleased about the way the smiling orchids
Are learning to speak the language of
The bunnies that sip sweet tea
At the quaint café next door.
And White, well she's indifferent about everything!
As Kitty, poor Kitty,
Who, in the buzz and hum of sock activity,
Can only be concerned about sheltering herself
From the iridescence of Lucy’s oh so lonely moments.

3 comments:

  1. Awesome verse.... loved the last line.... her loneliness is multicoloured... wow...

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    1. Thanks Robert! She's a lonely child who uses the vibrant colors of her socks to distract herself from the fact that she has no friends. She pretends that they are her friends and she uses her imagination to make up stories about the colors of the socks, the flower, the bunny headband and the old tin cup. All the while, her cat is trying to get her attention but he fails and has to concede to the fact that she'd rather make up a make believe world with her socks than play with him. :)

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  2. Beautiful verse, so nicely done!

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