Emma And Her Tearful Noel: Part One

Your first day of vacation and I've dragged you to the mall

And while your demeanor seems hardly appalled

You're defiantly silent and it's fraying my seams

I'm hemorrhaging humor and I'm ready to scream

Don't pretend or condescend when you'd rather be with friends

But give me credit for at least I get it and wish to make amends

Let me entice you with some device 'cause I'm trying to be so nice

Or buy you that game embracing all blame if that be your price

You shyly shuffled behind me through each boutique

No biting critique though you felt like a freak

Reluctantly responding as I called from the changing room

Or caught in the plume of some pungent perfume

I caught your downcast glance and I long to bridge this rift

Please, lift your sullen spirits by submitting to a gift

Or loan me some moments to sneak off alone

To hopefully get your mum on the phone

To offer some ideas and make it all clear

Some needed relief to ward off the tears

I at once whip around as if on a whim

And plainly proclaim that your bangs needa trim

Then I pull you along to the nearest salon

And before you've been caped I'm already gone

Please, be a good sport if she cuts it too short

Just save your retort for the food court

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nightlight1220's picture

This is super cute. Yes, the

This is super cute. Yes, the tween years and teen years!! Sometimes it feels just like you are walking a stubborn mule on a leash up a steep mountain. 

 


...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "

 

PeterChristopherRaymond's picture

Thank you very very much! I

Thank you very very much! I know I was kind of a moody tenager. Who knows; Maybe that's partly why I got into writing poetry. It was my way of articulating what I was wresting with. It's funny because I feel like I'm both characters: the pissy teenager and the frustrated adult.

nightlight1220's picture

Ah...now I understand why

Ah...now I understand why your works are so seasoned. I thought that you had probably taken writing courses, but if so, you also started very young. Well, there is nothing wrong with always staying young at heart, Peter. From what I see in myself and others, being young at heart actually keeps you physically younger as well. 

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...and he asked her, "do you write poetry? Because I feel as if I am the ink that flows from your quill."

"No", she replied, "but I have experienced it. "

 

PeterChristopherRaymond's picture

Thank you very much! Yes, I

Thank you very much! Yes, I started writing poetry approximately twenty-five years ago when I was seventeen. The majority of my poems are on my Facebook and my Tumblr. I do kind of forget my age sometimes; It's true. That is until I look at my state ID and then I go, "oh, yeah, right." :P

SSmoothie's picture

lol! we all are after were forced to grow up!

it is a truly natural state! :)

hugss n jugss


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

SSmoothie's picture

ha ha cute ending! I am never

ha ha cute ending! I am never dissapointed delving into your folio! hugss


Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS    

"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."

PeterChristopherRaymond's picture

Thank you very much,

Thank you very much, Ssmoothie! The feeling is mutual. :D