Some Zelda Poems for Your Reading Pleasure

 

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Zelda was in one once

She played the sofa

No lines

But it was considered definitive

For a sofa portrayal.

 

She rested on her laurels.

FLEDGLING

 

The trapeze

Was high overhead

Zelda looked at me

Challenging.

I took the rope

In both hands

Ready to fly.

 

Zelda?

Why me?

You, who carried me over so many cliffs

Joyously

Beckoning

Why do you sit on the ground?

Why do you make me fly for you?

Because it’s time.

THE DOLDRUMS

If only

Sohere we are at the end

Again.

Uphillso much of the time

 

Iremember so joyously the downhill slides

Whooshing,arms upraised, feet in the air, mouth wide

Squealing

Knowingyou’ll be safe but loving the instant where

You’renot sure

Lovingthe moment at the top of the cliff

Whenthe world is spread out like peanut butter on toast

Foryou and only you

Totaste

 

Andnow

We’vecome to the bottom

Theend

Cloudsand light and rainbows and lightning

Havemoved out of the area.

Sailsluff; wind dies; the doldrums.

It isover.

 

Ifonly.