A 'Real Poem' -- Truths, where I don't often go
tall girls make me nervous
they really do. Make me nervous
what is it with them that makes me this way
you have no idea how it makes me feel
me being with them
it isn't parts they've got, nor what they haven't
it's them
closed elevators escalate
like a tall one who wanted me to join mensa with her
intangible
it's her mind-all their minds-i guess-grows them tall
i wish i were a tall girl
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Photo and Poem Copyright © 2014 and 2016 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
I'm linked with Outlawyer(Karin) in the Imaginary Garden with Real Toads,
her post, Sunday Mini-Challenge
We were asked to write something REAL. Then Karin suggested using some of E.E. Cummings' (1894-1962) poems as an example. Here are some.
Notes:
- The young lady from Houston, Texas, is 6 feet 4. Her 49 inch legs, from thigh to toe, may set a world record. For sure for Houston they did and probably are a record in Texas also. Things are bigger in Texas.
- The picture is from the Houston Chronicle, Star section. I have lost the date but it was published in mid-February, 2014.
- For sure too she would intimidate me if we were alone in an elevator. Ladies taller than I am worry me.
- If I really wanted (??) to be a girl, I am too old now. For both ways, birth and surgery.
Labels: Personal-Challenge-2016, Poem, Real Poem, Real Toads
posted by Jim @ 1/16/2016 09:49:00 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
I think being nervous can be a good thing in some ways. It all depends on how we act on it... Love that last line.
Ha. This is a very interesting poem, Jim! Super quirky but in a very kind of memorable way--and it is especially interesting the way that you switch from their height--I love the elevator thing by the way--to their brains--and one feels that it is worrisome to have a brain so much above you, and perhaps to have a sense of the traditionally touted order of things reversed--then the morphing into a type of envy is so human--anyway, I really enjoyed reading this. Thanks for participating. k.
Tall girls can also be just as nervous about their towering position. I'm watching my daughter grow, and grow, and grow...and praying she doesn't disown her little mama.
Loved it! Tall girls have a different view of the world. Lol!
Love your last line.
LOL very a witty way of expressing your wonder not awe of tall girls
Much love...
Smiled through every line! Could not stop humming Queen's 'Fat Bottomed Girls' don't know why ~~ hope that's ok! I think you did artifice quite well, my friend!
Tall girls literally look down on you. Hank is just as nervous. Would rather hug a girl looking down into her eyes. She should be looking up to the sky and able to position her pouted lips waiting. She should not be allowed the time instead of patting Hank's pate with boredom.
Hank
Interesting... I find confident men are really the only ones who can "handle" tall women. Not sure what that says about this poem ... (sorry)
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