2010 - 365 Poems

My Year as a Poet by The Crafty Scribe

This is an experiment to write a poem or a short verse a day, and post it to this blog.

I'm not a trained poet, just an enthusiastic scribe wanting to create something new each day. I don't truly know my stanza from my meter, but I hope to improve and get my poetic license someday! Expect the weird, the strange and the inner workings of the Crafty Scribe's mind.

Please pass on the blog address to all your verse and lyrical loving friends. I hope you will join me, and read my daily scribbling.

2010 the year of 365 poems: http://365poet2010.blogspot.com/

Thursday, 4 March 2010

"Yummy Mummies" (Entry 63)

Here comes the Volvo and the four by four,
And the Jag, or the hybrid; the cars they adore.
It’s the smart set - the preening ladies who lunch - 
Yummy mummies who gossip and munch.
Identical haircuts in identikit lives.
Looking, to all, like the Stepford Wives.
Kiddies sliced out, and shoved into Nanny’s control.
Then trendy daycare and THE right school. That is the goal.
They bray, and they boast, and stick with their peers.
Showing photographs of recitals, gymkhanas and Tarquin’s gap year.
All about image. Keeping up with the in-crowd.
Must follow the herd. Suitable marriage, they vowed.
The children are accessories. The heir and the spare.
Ornaments to dress, show off, and compare.
No more important than other dinner party chat.
Such as their three holidays a year, or who’s getting fat.
These missus’ are more interested in mani/pedi’s and a good facial,
Leaving them Botoxed, injected with a look that is glacial.
So they meet, and they bleat, together in packs.
Then off to the salon for a Brazilian wax.
But where is the love? Where is the care?
Does all that affection goes into an affair
With the personal trainer, who gropes at her breast?
Or does it end up in the empty bottle of Scotland’s best?
Perfect lives. Perfect wives.
Perfect weight. Perfect mate.
Perfect spouse. Perfect house.
Perfect wedding ring. Perfect off-spring.
Perfect folks. Perfect HOAX.

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