Thursday, April 5, 2012

Poem 5 - Divas and Bananas

Divas and Bananas

There could be a moral
to this. Poets lose their home
and go bananas.

Stoics they are not. I heard
an opera manager once
from Copenhagen,
talking on the radio about divas.

Sensitive plants, divas. Like
a banana, the Musa. No upset
allowed, for them to sing their arias
properly. Divas go bananas

at any little upset. The Musa
is no ordinary hardy plant

I am proud to be a real Princess
who feels a Pea under a thousand
mattresses.

The Danes know.

Sorella


  Okie from Muskogee

5 comments:

  1. Hooray for divas, even if they have to go bananas! (Bananas, I have discovered after moving to Australia, fruit once, then pine away. But if you chop them down, they'll send out suckers to make a new tree come up near where the old one grew, and you'll have more bananas. I'm hoping the moral is that PFFA will come back stronger and better.)

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  2. divas rule! even if they are divas! and bananas! your poems usually give me a chuckle, thank yOU!.

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    1. I keep forgetting to sign cookala - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

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  3. cookie, biped, thank you for making oyur way here :-)

    Sorella NOT Bugs Bunny

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  4. Divas and Bananas in the same poem... I love this! And I like the omniscience of that last line.

    ~Scarlett

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