Dad said Smile!
Hard to smile when feeling bad
But he’d insist
Smile!
It felt invasive
Hard to smile when feeling bad
But he’d insist
Smile!
It felt invasive
I wanted to be mad!
But hard to stay mad when forced to smile.
I don’t know if that was right
But I never forgot it
Did I?
But hard to stay mad when forced to smile.
I don’t know if that was right
But I never forgot it
Did I?
Today at dVerse, the pub where poets hang out, we were asked to write a Quadrille (a poem of exactly 44 words) which includes the word smile, in any of its forms. We need more smiles nowadays so I repeated it three times to make it stick. Now visit the poets pub for more smiles, from Nat King Cole to Tim McGraw to Charles Bukowski.
3 comments:
I hear you! Are coerced smiles really smiles? (Dennis Ryle)
Thanks Dennis!
Yvonne, it was the expectation to smile in forced photos back then. I look at my sad face trying to smile in some old pictures and wonder how nobody seemed to notice how unhappy I was. Nowadays, I much prefer to take candid pics of people, preferably while they are in action. I'm sorry you had to go through it.
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