April is National Poetry Month. Every year, my dear friend, and Poet Extraordinaire, Mary Lee Hahn, chooses a theme and writes a poem every day. She blogs and posts at two different places- YEAR OF READING and her fabulous new poetry blog, POETREPOSITORY.
This year's theme is PO-EMotions. Mary Lee promises, "I will write a poem a day that either evokes an emotion, or uses an emotion word in the title or body of the poem. Her list of emotions is here. I'm joining her, at least some days.
Today's emotion is zest.
"ZEST"
He pulls up beside me
fifty-something balding
ordinary except for
his red Chevy Impala lowrider
gold hubcaps glint
in late afternoon sun
and sparking silver sign
in back window taunts
"JUST TEST ME."
Someone in the car behind him
shouts a challenge
and he responds
with a couple of
jaunty up down bows
followed by
a side-to-side shimmy
then roars off
tires squealing
I am not a car person
my dusty dark green SUV
a strictly utilitarian
get me from place to place
kind of vehicle
but as he spins away
I long for that
red convertible
shimmy side to side
bow up and down
joy.
(c) Carol Wilcox, 2015
What a great image. Somedays it would be great to shimmy like that red convertible.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun moment you captured!
ReplyDeleteI love the story, Carol. You've captured it beautifully. When I see zippy convertibles in our town, I always wonder 'what if'.
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