I mentioned that I was given a magnetic poetry kit for my birthday – my official birthday that is, my actual birthday was in January, too close to Christmas and New Year. I keep writing magentic poetry so I’ve decide that’s what it should be.. maybe in a nod to Molesworth (Nigel) I might even call it peotry.
I shared my first attempt the other day… I was just playing with words and somehow created something.
Here is my first proper attempt… it’s about a woman who works in a hand-car wash… totally imagined, but I can see her clearly:
Car-wash Lady
Blow, spray,
Lather her lie
and never reveal
some raw, drunk, beauty.
She stayed with me, and now there is another poem or a second verse:
Sweet peach dreams
She was bitterly crushed,
yet as her blue fingers
smeared wax, she pictured
her sweet, peach skin.
This is certainly a fun exercise, and is actively creative; there’s a playful element and yet it takes concentration and lateral thinking. I didn’t have a picture of the car-wash lady, she emerged, and her story unfolded as arranged and rearranged the magnetic words.
I wonder what will come next? More about her, or something – or someone new?
Lois Elsden 
I once fell in love with a young car wash girl.The prettiest girl I’d ever met. I nicknamed her Cuddles. But everyone else called her Bubbles. And she was sure slippery when wet.
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There needs to be a poem about her!!
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That was my own limerick that I made up! Do you want to hear one about an East Indian girl?
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Definitely!! Love poetry!! 😉
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There was a young girl from Madras
That had such a beautiful ass
Not pretty and pink as you probably think
But was grey, had long ears, and ate grass
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Teehee!! or should I say eeeyoooorr!
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Always had a thing for donkeys !!
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There’s a donkey sanctuary not far from here, they are the nicest creatures… oh and we have donkeys on the beach here in Weston too!
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Always had a thing for donkeys
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“hand-car wash” sounds like something my grand father would get his gandy dancers to do!
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Good grief!! No… this is a car-wash with maybe a dozen workers who wash and valet cars by hand… quite often these people aren’t here legally but trafficked in and are sadly what is now called ‘modern’ slave labour.
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I have a sad fear how much completely unskilled work is done by the “unfree”: the trafficked, the enslaved, the denied.
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It’s a horrible thought isn’t it, poor people with such lives, trying to do the best for their families.
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