Bad Decision

Posted byChristine BoltonPosted inBlog, QuadrilleTags:, , , , , 
I bend like long summer grasses
Blowing in a breeze
Pleasing to your eye

My limbs stretched in the four directions
of a compass 
Always there for you

Turning on a dime
A flexing contortionist 
who never says no to you
That is me

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Lisa from Tao Talk is hosting Monday Quadrille at D’Verse Poets Pub. Her prompt word tonight is “Bend”

Aa quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title.

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

36 thoughts on “Bad Decision”

  9. Wow! Bellissimo, Christine Bellissimo!! I so loved your opening stanza!!! It immediately captured me!!! Maybe it was the Alliteration I love so much and the rhyme with breeze. Those 3 lines painted a whole canvass in my mind! I have a memory that fits these three lines perfectly but included a color that made it magical! Thanks for bring it back to me!!

    Your words reached out to my heart and I couldn’t stop it from whispering words from my memory!

    I bend like long summer grasses
    Blowing in a breeze
    Pleasing to your eye

    AS I DANCE AND PLAY
    IN THE LAST GOLDEN RAYS
    OF THE DAY

    Your words always find a way to inspire me!!

    😊😁🎁💕🌹

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    1. Hi David, I just found your comment in my Spam box. Sorry! Yes, that is how you were meant to feel. It was a lot to cram in to a quadrille. It is story of easily losing yourself. ☺️ Thank you for ‘feeling’ it.

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  12. I have to echo Reena’s comment about the layers of meaning in your poem. Fantastically written, Christine. The lines that stuck out to me were, “A flexing contortionist / who never says no to you” – and like you said in an earlier reply, we can be flexible to a fault.

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  14. That opening line really hooked me in and I love all the “bendy” references. So effective in portraying the way we can easily stretch ourselves past the limit to please another.

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