Take Me, for Example: I'm Pretty Attractive, No

January 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, which falls on January 28. This year is The Year of the Rooster.

Today’s poem is a Chinese, or Lunar New Year poem for this year’s Chinese New Year, The Year of the Rooster, from the rooster’s point of view.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Take me, for example: I’m pretty attractive, no?

How can people say I shouldn’t flaunt it?

Every woman everywhere I go

Yearns for me. I cannot help but want it.

Even so, they say I am conceited,

Arrogant, and too full of myself.

Rest assured, they’re jealous and feel cheated,

Or they would take their own goods off the shelf!

For me there is no shame in showing off

The beauty of my body and my voice,

Having enough ego to put forth

Each morning some fine fanfare of my choice.

Revealing what I have to give the world

Ought not be a cause for disapproval.

One should keep one’s majesties unfurled,

Singing as one is through glory hurled

Towards one’s curt and ultimate removal.

Exuberance in life cannot be wrong.

Remember well my loud, well-crafted song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/takem2.html. For more poems about the Chinese, or Lunar New Year, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/chinesenewyearpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Chinese, or Lunar New Year

January 23: Luck Is like a Tide Pulled by the Moon

January 24: The World Is Not Sufficiently in Order

January 25: There Are Those Who Shy Away from Being

January 26: Tolerance Is Hard to Tolerate

January 27: There Is No Point in Being Merely Clever

January 28: Take Me, for Example: I’m PrettyAttractive, No