Some Zelda Poems for Your Reading Pleasure

 

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Zelda was in one once

She played the sofa

No lines

But it was considered definitive

For a sofa portrayal.

 

She rested on her laurels.

FLEDGLING

 

The trapeze

Was high overhead

Zelda looked at me

Challenging.

I took the rope

In both hands

Ready to fly.

 

Zelda?

Why me?

You, who carried me over so many cliffs

Joyously

Beckoning

Why do you sit on the ground?

Why do you make me fly for you?

Because it’s time.

THE DOLDRUMS

If only

So here we are at the end

Again.

Uphill so much of the time

 

I remember so joyously the downhill slides

Whooshing, arms upraised, feet in the air, mouth wide

Squealing

Knowing you’ll be safe but loving the instant where

You’re not sure

Loving the moment at the top of the cliff

When the world is spread out like peanut butter on toast

For you and only you

To taste

 

And now

We’ve come to the bottom

The end

Clouds and light and rainbows and lightning

Have moved out of the area.

Sails luff; wind dies; the doldrums.

It is over.

 

If only.