Courtland Rhapsody

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Ten boys of the South

Fresh from education and institution

Bantered about flirtation and aspiration

Of wrongful women and this righteous retreat

 

On the way to Courtland

We picked up and passed a fallen rocket

And before we could clock it

We had hit the heartland

 

Each one of us locked eyes with the lake

Each one of us blessed by the beauty

Not the first or the last

To sign the wooden guestbook keepsake

 

Charmed by GaGa, a gracious hostess

Fed us homemade reubens and pie without protest

For the murals and decorations engrossed us

Some just fell under Nature’s hypnosis

 

Unconsciously we split into two groups

Those who were sporty with a shooting habit

Those who tinkered and toasted a Volkswagen Rabbit

Craving to keep driving in an endless loop

 

We bonded across the board

We dived in the lake

We fished, we fought, we feigned

We will never forget that Alabama lake

227 thoughts on “Courtland Rhapsody”

  1. Don Boes

    Simon: Maybe your strongest poem yet. Each stanza seems self-contained and yet moves the poem forward. I especially like the closure of the last stanza. Way to go!

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  2. Gaby Bedetti

    I especially like “pie without protest,” “Nature’s hypnosis,” and “We fished, we fought, we feigned” because of the internal rhyme, off rhyme, and alliteration on top of the end rhyme. Those aural harmonies mirror the harmonious relationships experienced on the road trip.

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