Kleptomaniac

I confess to living my life

Lifted from pop songs, poets, fools

Taking every chance I get

Wandering where I choose

Secreting in my pocket

Those most precious of jewels

Stolen seconds of Time

To be wasted with you

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n.b. www.napowrimo.net Day 13 prompt: All poetry is theft.

Christopher Perry

13th April, 2020

17 Comments

  1. MellowYellow says:

    This is so sweet and romantic. I can just see the fingers fidgeting over the warmed jewels in secret.

    1. Thank you, Saffron. I am gong to have to open a bank vault to stash the stash after all this enforced down-time. I am now collecting days!

  2. Shuku Li says:

    ‘I confess to living my life

    Lifted from pop songs, poets, fools’

    Oh gods I love those lines so much and I love the poem! It’s wonderful!

    1. Shuku, Thank you – I really appreciate your encouragement. Catch up later.

      1. Shuku Li says:

        I actually think I have that Language of Flowers book too! I need to hunt for it now…

      2. It would be amazing if you did. The one here is my sister’s. A gift to her in 1976!

      3. Shuku Li says:

        OH MY GOODNESS I HAVE IT!!!

      4. Well, every line of separation comes from there! Amazing you have it too 😊

      5. We could converse in code! Except it is well past lights out time here… tomorrow

      6. Shuku Li says:

        We can INDEED converse in code – tomorrow.

        Although I must warn you, my intrepid poet friend, that I am not a coreopsis, but a dahlia (as opposed to dahlia, single).

    1. It was interesting to see this prompt today because when the floral prompt came in every line of that poem was lifted from “The Language of Flowers”, so I had to scramble on this…love NaPoWriMo…(ish).

      1. Yep, it’s keeping us on our toes!

  3. Lovely lovely that — “Secreting in my pocket

    Those most precious of jewels

    Stolen seconds of Time

    To be wasted with you”

    1. Thank you, Liz. Keeping the NaPo stuff short and sweet while writing my Lockdown days record

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