Two Will Do
I used to like friends by the score
squeezed wall-to-wall and door-to-door.
A party didn’t even count
until the guests began to mount
up to sixty, seventy, more.
But now, I’m finding crowds a bore.
Now I find that two-by-two
is something I prefer to do.
Conversations more intimate
make it simpler to relate.
So though I used to be a grouper,
now I’m just a party-pooper.
for dVerse Poets, the prompt is Number.

Haha! Love the imagery that you’re poem evokes
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Your poem resonates with me Judy, although I’ve never been one for groups and crowds; I always preferred one to one or smaller groups.
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By this definition I have always been a party-pooper
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This so resonates with me Judy 🙌
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Me too! This one made me smile!
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I concur and those two look like great company.
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They were in a girls’ orphanage where I used to volunteer to help them do art projects. This little boy’s sisters were brought here so let him come live here, too. Good for them!!!
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Indeed…. no longer more the merrier…. what we need is real conversations.
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So many of us concur. I always feel writing a poem is a conversation with myself. Can you identify with this?
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All us introverts say amen!
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Good to know, Judy. I usually see you with a crowd in your posts. I’ve always been more of a one to one type of interactor. Crowds make me nervous for several reasons that I haven’t yet been able to shake.
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Perhaps that is why I always take photographs in crowds..to single out individuals to make the occasion more personal.
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Grouper is a fish, and the kids are adorable.
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Ha. Well-said, Dolly.
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Thank you, kind lady.
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Haha! Love it. And ‘grouper/party-pooper’ will not often be seen again in the wilds of rhyme!
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