Feb 13, 2011

Poetry Bus 14th February

Dana Bug gave poets three prompts to encourage them to buy a ticket for the Bus this week.  This picture is one of them.



Stopping By Settees on a Snowy Evening
(with apologies to Robert Frost. And his little horse)

Whose couch is this? I think it's lost.
Who threw it out? What did it cost?
It has not seen me stopping here.
It's arm-rests are all stiff with frost.

My motor-chair thinks I am queer
to stop because a couch is near.
I always do a double-take
when snowbound sofas do appear.

It gives my ass a gentle shake
to ask if I've made some mistake.
But frozen couches make me weep.
I'd thaw them with a long, slow bake.

Its pattern's lovely! Cushions deep,
a couch I'd really love to keep.
But - miles to go before I sleep -
So! Leave it for the rubbish-heap.

9 comments:

  1. LOL - this is great! Thanks for riding the bus!

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  2. Bwahahaha! Perfect play on Frost's poem. Which, as I recall was not about a sofa, but had it been would we still be reading it today? Perhaps not. But, here we are reading yours.

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  3. I love the line about the gentle shake!!! You're a genius. Thank you for doing this ala Frost.

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  4. Enchanted Oak . . thanks for the compliment, but the line you refer to is lifted (almost) verbatim from Robert Frost, whose little horse
    "gives his harness bells a shake
    to ask if there is some mistake"

    Thanks all! Particularly to Frost for the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the poem here.

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  5. Wonderful wonderful parody. Love that rhyme scheme. Wonder if it should come full circle with an -ost rhyme in the third line of the final stanza?

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  6. Peter G . . . following the pattern of the other stanzas, it should. But I remained faithful to Robert Frost's rhyme scheme. His last stanza rhymes with "deep" on all four lines.

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  7. It is indeed a lovely pattern! Doubt Frost's would be as good as this!

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