Around The Square Poem by Martin O'Neill

Around The Square

Rating: 4.6


A shopping shark shimmers
In the city centre seize
Picking off the bargains
With a practised, fluid ease

Plastic card whispers
As designer bags fill
Parades her Prada handbag
Like a hunter with his kill

A Starbucks and a breather
On the corner of the square
Sips a skinny latte
And restyles a wayward hair

Then uncurls from her table
Like a languid, waking cat
Adjusts her perfect hemline
Shakes a sunbeam from her hat

So graceful on stilleto heels
She negotiates the square
The minnows part and shoal around
Parfum, lingers, on the air.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Patti Masterman 02 March 2012

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Okoye Charles Chukwudi 29 February 2012

This good... This is poetry, a painting of a lady gone shopping. Your words really come alive....i like this very much. Your are no doubt, a true poet. Nice imagery. Please do read mine and leave a comment/criticism. A picture and Written at midnight hour...thanks

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Wahab Abdul 29 February 2012

well said and well pictured i like it very much.

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Patti Masterman 29 February 2012

I would change the word perfume to parfum! lol..more classy and French! I could almost smell the faint whiff..whoa, down, fellas!

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Jonny Brackney 01 March 2012

a simple scenario described vibrantly. i love it.

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Mihaela Pirjol 14 December 2014

A really enjoyable read...beautifully descriptive!

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John Brown 03 September 2012

Nice poem Martin. The first line is a corker.

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Ruth Walters 04 August 2012

So you've seen her too eh......it's the Parfum that lingered on the air, that really got you....and the way she knew her bottom swayed as she walked away........

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Richard D. Remler 13 April 2012

Has an exceptional flow to it. She brings to mind P. Hilton or one of the Kardashians. Excellent write, quite vivid and cleverly crafted. tfs

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Tom Higgins 13 March 2012

Such a lot of things they buy, in the incessant search for happiness! Another gem! Tom

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