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Anyway!

Ludy Bührs

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it was her son
who said: “ma
just buy a bra

I can see my friends staring
when your breasts are shamelessly
showing through your tight shirt”

and sure, she gave in
now wearing a nice balcony
on which her breasts rest
and pleasantly wobble

so these two sweets anyway
stand out in sight
wrapped up they appeal
even more to lust

ma is and stays
too fickle to bust
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Submitted by ludy_b on October 17, 2021

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Scheme XAA XBX XBXX XXXC XC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 349
Words 70
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 4, 4, 2
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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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