pictured words
a simple pairing of pictures and poetry
July 7, 2014
TEACHER (to Dad with Love)
Photo credit: Sheryl Oder
“But how do you thank someone who has taken you from crayons to perfume?” (Don Black’s To Sir with Love)
Students from yesteryear gather to honor him.
I see the pride well and spill.
Not arrogance or superiority, but a grounded wonder
As he processes the ripples initiated
By his long-passed presence in their lives.
© copyright 2013, Marie Elena Good
July 6, 2014
THAT BOY
With good looks and muscles he’s brimmin’.
It shows when he’s out there a’swimmin’.
He’s staring at Susie
(that life-guarding floozy!)
He thinks he is God’s gift to women.
And not that I’d notice, but hey –
He’s flirting with Rosie and Faye,
Katrina, Deb … Gee,
Now he’s flirting with ME?
Now I’m thinkin’ this place is okay!
© Marie Elena Good
July 5, 2014
TRAWL
Photo by Keith R. Good
Ice melts away
Gray sheds to gray
Man feeling tinned
Casts worth to wind
© Marie Elena Good, 2013
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