Another Dead "Moslem" on the Evening News

[Hatalles]

Wrote this one a few months back...



Another Dead "Moslem" on the Evening News

There is no apprehension in her voice. It slides
through the seeping crevice between her supple
lustrous crimson lips. She sucks them in. In
inflections, her words surge out again, spewing
facts swathed in the subsuming texture of her tongue.
her pouty lips purse shut as her spine reclines,
gyring erect. A long slender finger grazes her
cheek, as she coils a forlorn golden tendril round
her ear. The sweltry sheen of the lights simmering
into her scalp, she rolls her glimmering neck towards
her hard and chiseled partner. Tersely, but with
a peculiar lilt in the air, she sprightly calls his name.

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. yes

[Droopy]

2. Captures the stupidity that is television news

"Well I could have been an actor, but I wound up here."

Nice work, Hatalles.

[KaliTracy]

3. This poem really gets into the shallowness of the news, but you

do it so artfully! and your sensuous descripions were a delight. thank you so much for sharing this!

[Hatalles]

4. Thanks all for your comments!

I wrote this one for a workshop... the media is a topic I like to deal with in my poetry. There's just so much to work with there.