I always wanted blue jeans,
but never could find ones
to fit when I was very young.
They were either way too loose,
or they were way too long.
When I finally grew some more,
I finally found some that fit,
and was so excited,
I bought three pairs,
a complete entire set!
I finally was a a real girl,
I could join in with the crowd,
I no longer looked old-fashioned,
I no longer looked the dowd.
I wore blue jeans nearly
every day to school,
I wore them to church
on Wednesdays,
I wore them for dates
and fun.
I never wanted to
take them off,
except if it was hot
when there was
too much sun!
Many years have passed by now,
and last year hit a nerve,
I outgrew all my jeans,
I no longer had the verve!
I bought some nana jeans,
I’m sure you know the sort,
they don’t have zippers,
but elastic in the top like
bastions on a fort!
Well, nana jeans or not,
I still do love them blue,
they make me feel
quite comfy,
I don’t care how old I am,
they still make me feel so cool!
© Elaine Wood-Lane
4/11/14
Today’s suggestion for a poem was to write a sapphic, which are quatrains whose first three lines have eleven syllables, and the fourth, just five. There is also a very strict meter that alternates trochees (a two-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed, and the second unstressed) and dactyls (a three-syllable foot, with the first syllable stressed and the remainder unstressed). The first three lines consist of two trochees, a dactyl, and two more trochees. The fourth line is a dactyl, followed by a trochee.
Well, I’m not up to sapphics! I’m more of a loose verse kind of girl. Lately I’ve been in a rather rhythmic, rhyming scheme, but much of the time, I’m just loose verse or a haiku. Haikus have rules, but they’re short. My attention span can handle those! An alternative was to write an ode to denim. So, I could very much handle that! I’m a denim kind of girl too! (Oh, I forgot. Mother told me 20 years ago I was no longer a “girl.” Anyone over the age of 30 was, in her book, no longer a girl but a woman. Oh well!)
Sunshine Lane 