WOMEN AND MEN
LADIES AND MEN
The window box looks down below
To the avenue where young ladies pass
On concrete lanes, next to patches of grass,
In the gilded gold of the summer’s glow.
The apple cart, upon the street dips,
Topples over, and a crimson scent
Of fresh, ripe fruit, so redolent,
Makes the young ladies pucker their lips.
The shopkeepers, the salesmen and the cops
Pretend not to notice when a neckline drops,
Nor to admire the softness of a lady’s arms-
Just as women fake indifference each day
To the sight of muscular charms-
That masculine display.
For the female eye is always hungrier
Than any manly or bestial gaze;
With insatiable lust, they make sure to appear
To ascribe to proper ways
(While they secretly leer
At the menfolk all the nights and days.)
One blond coquette
With her parasol
Looks like a doll
In the luncheonette,
Smiling at a princely squire
Who as a gentlemen
Must return the grin,
Whole, entire.
John Lars Zwerenz
About this poem
Female lust and male chivalry; Lyric Verse
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Written on September 04, 2015
Submitted by angelabradford2 on October 04, 2021
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Scheme | X ABBA CDX C EEFGFG H IXIHI DAXXXJJH B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 1, 6, 1, 5, 8, 1 |
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