Twenty Short Poems
QUALITY
How I love spending good
Quality time with you
We enjoy our equality
SANE
Wishing we could both
Be the same
As when we were both sane
DRESSING UP
Loving getting all dressed up
My long dresses
Reaching down to my bottom
SLEEPING
Sleeping in
Creeping into your life
As I lay beside you
Yet feel beside myself
PIZZA
Pizza
With lots of cheese
I just want to seize it
I can breathe in all the anchovies
YOUTH
The fountain of youth
Wanting to move mountains
Yet unable to move even an inch
Age is as solid as a brick
NEW YORK
I want to eat well with a good
Fork in New York
I want to take on New York
I want New York on a fork
DISAPPOINTMENT
Disappointment
Not to have kept this appointment
I feel so out of joint
I sometimes think what’s the point
POPCORN
Popcorn
Doesn’t blow my horn
It leaves me feeling forlorn
GRUB
I never realized what a grub you were
You didn’t even give me a back rub
Let alone have fun in the tub
Thank God you are not my hub
And we don’t have a bub
HANDBAG
At the bottom of the handbag
Was a bottomless pit of
Money, makeup and make-believe
I couldn’t believe
My eyes
At what she kept digging up in her handbag
TROUBLE
Trouble with a capital T
The police coming with
A capital P
There is no treaty or sign of peace
CURLS
As you twist yourself around me
Giving me no space
I just want to hurl you into space
And send you to another place
LOVE TRIANGLE
Love triangle
Giving our love an
Angle
As I dangle you
At the end of my
Wants and needs
INNER DEMONS
You fill me full of demons
With your frilly silly sermons
LEAVING
You’re leaving
That’s a fact
You said it straight out
With hardly any tact
We are no longer a pact
BUDGETING
I find it really hard
I just can’t do it
Especially trying
To keep all my gadgets
Running
They keep ruining my budget
PAIN
Looking at you
With your back turned
I can still see your pain
Your body slain
DARE
On a solitary dare feeling bare
Attracting men’s stares
However thinking who cares
I’m so alone being without you
It feels so rare I can still feel your glare
LIVING
Welcome back to the land of the living
Thankyou for giving me your love
From so faraway
Isabella Fels is a Melbourne poet and writer. She has been published in various publications including Positive Words, Mental Illness Voice, The Big Issue and The Record.
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