Poetry Prompt: Poetic Bloomings with Walt Wojtanik

Closet Disco Queen

I was a band nerd.
Not a rah rah. Not a geek.
And not a surfer.

That wasn’t my bag.
But I liked walkin’ the beach
and catchin’ some rays.

I wasn’t a drag,
but not all show and no go.
Like, can you dig it?

I was no brick house.
If I stuck out my tongue, I
looked like a zipper.

Not a dancin’ queen.
Didn’t have the moves, ya know?
(Just keepin’ it real.)

© Marie Elena Good 2024

December 31, 2023

MAKE-BELIEVE ENDINGS

We say goodbye to the end of a year,
and cheer on a new one.
But time’s end is nothing.
A five-and-dime’s storybook fiction.
Merely a period made with pencil,
easily erased. Easily replaced
with a comma.
A question.
Simply a suggestion.
Take this grain-of-salt eve,
and grieve not for a closing,
for it is just posing as such.

© Marie Elena Good, 2023

Happy New Year, all!