The Yellow Dress

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The Yellow Dress

When she wears it, worlds collide.
Men collect on either side.
Women seek her company.
Children seek to grace her knee.

Potentates, senators, kings
bring her necklaces and rings.
Scholars write her name in books.
Jealous women exchange looks.

There is hardly anything
that nature does not seek to bring.
Winds blow harder, streams divert
when she wears that saffron skirt.

The very heavens note where she went.
Tsunamis curl, volcanoes vent.
Soldiers line up to parade.
Mimes begin their mute charade.

Actors emote better to
this goddess in her sunny hue.
Mourning doves just bill and coo.
Old boyfriends seek her out anew.

Yet as she stands before her glass,
surveying both her front and ass,
her mate says, “Are you wearing that?”
and she surmises she looks too fat.

As she changes into basic black,
the lava cools, the seas hold back.
Her suitors cease their clamoring press.
She does not wear the yellow dress.

 

The dVerse Poets prompt was lemon yellow.

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My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

43 thoughts on “The Yellow Dress”

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Thanks, Andrea. I am so confused. The electricity went off at my house shortly after I posted this. I went in to swim and it started to rain so I just went to bed..Then I woke up and saw it was 6 o’clock but I couldnt’ tell if it was A.M. or P.M. Finally determined it is morning so I must have slept all night but still have no idea when the electricity went off and when it came on. Every light in the house was on..I guess because I was testing them. It seems I must have slept 10 or 12 hours which is about double what I usually sleep. I posted this blog but forgot to link it to dVerse Poets, which I just did. Crazy crazy world.

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        1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

          Turns out I just slept 5 hours after all. Later on discovered/remembered what I’d done those hours without electricity. I watched 3 episodes of The Voice that I’d recorded earlier. Ah, memory…

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  4. Ren's avatarRen

    “her mate says, “Are you wearing that?”
    and she surmises she looks too fat.

    As she changes into basic black”

    SIGH… wear that yellow! 🙂

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  9. shaun tenzenmen's avatartenzenmen

    My female teenage students often ask me, after hours of makeup preparation, ‘Do I look pretty?’ and I always tell them ‘No!’ They look at me disappointed and I ask them ‘Do you think you look pretty?’ and they say ‘Yes!’ I explain to them that that is all that matters. Also that they if choose to ask this question in the first place, be prepared for the answer they least desire!
    I finish off with a softening ‘Of course, you look pretty.’

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  10. Frewin55's avatarFrewin55

    You had me laughing out loud with this Judy – not so much the ending which is rather sad if realistically more likely, but with the many inventive images the like of which we may all have felt at some time, revelling in our prime…

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  13. Helen's avatarHelen

    AHHHHHH …. the “yellow” dress. NOW I see what all the fuss is all about. This poem is so much fun, Judy and I loved listening as you read it to us.

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