Perfectionist Poet
How I love an audience to witness my successes,
although I think much less of them when they witness my messes—
fingers marked by fountain pens, hair pulled into peaks
by those elusive phrases that my wild mind seeks.
Please don’t view me in the market when I don’t mean to be seen.
When I’ve had no time to arrange thoughts —no time to plot and preen.
There are certain safeguards that I like to take
that are not in place yet when I’m barely awake.
So don’t observe me in the morning when I’m not in my full glory,
when my brain is tongue-tied and my thoughts are sparse and gory.
It’s my fervid wish to please, but morning thoughts are frugal.
My images are less like Frost and much more like Brueghal.
So, please come to my readings to see me at my best,
but avoid me in my daily life, please, at my behest.
I prefer you view me with every word in place
there upon the stage and with makeup on my face!!!
Prompt words today are audience, market, safeguard, fervid, glory, fountain pen, frugal. Image by John Tyson on Unsplash.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I mumble and fumble at times when standing before a crowd, I have a tightness in my chest and words have difficulty coming out. Did you know that I rarely even use the phone~? I guess I am better at saying it on the sly (putting it down in writing)~! But here is what your Trigger finger pulled out by that poem, I know you have read it before, but maybe someone else in the crowd may not have.
https://mcouvillion.wordpress.com/2022/04/02/cocoon/
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I’m sure movie stars feel the same way. Good one, Judy!
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Ha.. Perfectionist poet is not me, although I do appreciate an audience!!
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Delightful! Did you mean Brueghel?
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Yes.. that is how it reads, Dolly.
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😻
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Wow. If I required that, I’d never see anybody. Nice work!
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Ah, so YOU are the crazed poetess of whom I have heard so much!
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Not I. You can approach me in the market or in the morning with no repercussions.
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