Cowboy on an Off-White Charger
You say I’m queen of your affection, yet your ambit has grown larger.
I hear you’ve put some extra miles on your faithful charger.
You say she is exhausted, her endurance sorely taxed.
She may need reshoeing and your credit card is maxed.
The extent of your travels and the speed with which you charge
have lately increased greatly—to have doubled, by and large.
If our love’s become monotonous, perhaps you seek new favors.
Perhaps you choose to taste delights of various other flavors.
You say your boots are dusty and nonchalantly stroll
out to find a shoeshine boy to cleanse your dirty sole.
Yet what you seek to polish may be a point that’s moot.
I think that what needs polishing may not be a boot.
Prompt words today are dusty boots, monotonous, ambit, speed and queen. The NaPoWriMo prompt today discussed different poetic devices. In lieu of just using one of them, I decided to try to use metonymy, polysemy, synecdoche and metalepsis in one poem. Image by Karen Cantu on Unsplash, used with permission.
She did well getting dusty boots when she’s not wearing any! A feisty poem today, nice work, Judy.
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The very reason his boots got dusty was because she wasn’t wearing anything!
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Haha! Indeed!
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So many images in one poem Judy. Thanks for joining in 🙂 🙂
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I love all the images and the varied meaning they lead us to.
And congrats on being featured poet today.
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Thanks, Maz. That was a nice surprise.
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Congratulations on having this featured poem — I cannot believe the prompt/task you set here and how the outcome is covered in just 3 stanzas! A whole narrative packed in here. Amazing.
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Thanks, Nina. I appreciate your appreciation! ;o)
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Congratulations on your featured poem. 🙂 Now it only needs some music.
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Thanks, Manja. I’ll get out my guit!!!
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You rhyme effortlessly – your word choice is perfect! Very witty ending.
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Thanks, Alana.
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Ha! Love it! Congrats on being one of the posts of the day over at NaPoWriMo.
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Thanks, Linda.
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Fantastic! Congratulations!
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Thanks, Tiffany.
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You’re the Queen of inuendoes. A real sly one. Love the poem.
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Aha.. so are you surrendering one of your crowns to me?
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