LIGHT'S OUT, Irreverence Options

[Alan]

LIGHT’S OUT

It was a wrench,
at eight bells,
to part from the wench
when she went to the powder room

to powder her nose -
what a delicious idea -
was not, I suppose
easy, in the deepest of gloom

The light bulb - and life’s -
quite transient nature
which causes much strife
is not shielded from death’s dreaded doom

Fate’s caught you off guard
altogether that night
clearly marked is your card :
“there is, sadly, no in at the womb ...”

Alan McAlpine Douglas

Challenge words : wrench eight powder nose
delicious transient bulb shield card together

[Alan]

Dear Ace,

Your post was so good you had to post it twice, as they used to sing about NY !

Thank you for the comment. The rhyme scheme happened merely cuz in the first verse lines 1 and 3 rhymed. I then tried to get all the 4th lines to rhyme too, and I'm glad to know from you and others earlier that this was not a distraction, rather that it worked pretty well.

Ace, that complaint seems to be one poets suffer from, or at least, they are willing to talk/write about it. I recently saw an old John Betjeman interview, in which he was asked if he had any regrets, and straightaway answered that he would have liked to have had more sex.

We are ploughing a famous furrow, you and I, even if it not the one we were aiming at !

Love
Alan