{"id":89069,"date":"2012-05-18T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89069\/poems-blue-hawaii-prom\/"},"modified":"2012-05-18T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T04:02:00","slug":"poems-blue-hawaii-prom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/89069\/poems-blue-hawaii-prom\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Blue Hawaii and At The Prom"},"content":{"rendered":"

These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>. \u00a0Our theme is Dancing at the Prom, with the added challenge of writing a fable on the topic.<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n


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Blue Hawaii was the theme
\nall designed to make eyes gleam.
\nHigh school gym on weekend eve
\nfine enough for all to believe.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

My date had been my second choice.
\nTo ask the first I had no voice.
\nIt turned out she had not been asked
\ntill friend’s interest was unmasked.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I don’t remember who wa playing.
\nHard to hear what she was saying.
\nFoxtrot or the jitterbug
\nMove your feet or sort of hug.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

I love the dances slow or fast
\nregretted each I had to pass.
\nMy date I thought was more restrained
\nI hoped no smiles of hers were feigned.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Afterwards, we’d been invited
\nto afterparty, quite delighted.
\nA classmate’s parents’ weekend place
\nto stay till dawn’s sun showed its face.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Lakeside cottage, romantic scene.
\nOn the back porch, moonlight’s sheen.
\nBut I was such a gentleman
\nwe talked for hours and just held hands. <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

That is all I recollect.
\nLater on, in a retrospect,
\nI wished that I’d been more direct
\nto encourage an intersect.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

The moral of this tale is this:
\nA chance at love should not be missed.
\nDo not assume love’s unrequited,
\nYou’ll wonder if you were shortsighted;
\nYou’ll wonder if you were both slighted.<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

Copyright May 17th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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