Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #33
Ambitious Little Boys
by Belinda Roddie
Ambitious little boys took up writing
to score a chance to see Miss Texas read
their works of poetry to a large crowd
between Corpus Christi and Houston. They
wanted to see her big, red lips and her
hair all curled up in little balls of gold
and auburn bouncing all along her neck
as she displayed her "bounteous delights."
They wrote lewd limericks, haiku, even
long, flowery ballads for the pageant
dame to recite. But in the end, it was
an old lady's sonnet that was picked as
the poem of choice. The boys all moaned and frowned,
but you can't always get the girls in town.
by Belinda Roddie
Ambitious little boys took up writing
to score a chance to see Miss Texas read
their works of poetry to a large crowd
between Corpus Christi and Houston. They
wanted to see her big, red lips and her
hair all curled up in little balls of gold
and auburn bouncing all along her neck
as she displayed her "bounteous delights."
They wrote lewd limericks, haiku, even
long, flowery ballads for the pageant
dame to recite. But in the end, it was
an old lady's sonnet that was picked as
the poem of choice. The boys all moaned and frowned,
but you can't always get the girls in town.
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