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Dresses

Bonnie Peters 1968 (La Brea)

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They sway as if in talk
They sing songs when they walk
Humming along with every step, every glide, every strut
They shimmy and shimmer wildly, gaily, reminding us of those color filled days that refuse to give up on us
Dresses dance in the wind. With each eager breeze, they gasp, and then laugh.
Flapping and fluttering in the rain they cling to sacred places, the envy of all men.
Down the front, over the head, up the back; dresses invite the vision they feed, creating new appetites and hunger
And at night, their whispers compete with the natives, moaning rhythmic sighs with each languorous fluent step.
Dresses welcome the thirst of endless summers, and mourn the beauty of a winter wonderland.
As the leaves gather, they compromise and coquettishly flip their hemlines at the possibilities of things yet to come.

About this poem

Written by 2011. Dresses celebrates being a girl and a woman.

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Bonnie Peters

Bonnie Peters is a Trinidadian poet who studied literature and creative writing at the University of the West Indies, but strayed from creative writing and poetry experience for the last 25 years. Even as she explored other aspects of what life has to offer she has never stopped writing poems and has an anthology of unpublished original poems that chronicles her experiences as a Caribbean woman, from girlhood in Trinidad and Tobago through adulthood while living and working in the united states for the past 25+ years. Several of her poems can be found on peotry.com such as "Dresses," "Dancing Strong," "Weeping Women, Little Girls" and others. more…

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