Friendly Advice to a Feckless Youth
The true Reckless Endangerment
is seldom what you’d guess:
not often quite so obvious
as acting under stress,
thus putting others in harm’s way
for physical duress;
more likely, it’s just saying things
much better left unsaid
about your girlfriend’s hairstyle, or
about great-uncle Fred,
who is your mother’s richest
relative and, shortly, dead.
It’s bad enough your note on Fred
will cut Mom from his will,
and likely keep you from her own
good graces longer still,
but there’s your girlfriend left to calm.
Let’s hope the bitter pill
of your ill-thought hairstyle remark
won’t make her wish you ill.
When Ladies are Dancing
Patterns of elegance, synchronized moves,
Footsteps as fluid as flowing in grooves
Down sides of a fountain afloat with champagne,
They leap and they glide and they dance the refrain
As though they were ageless and weightless as light,
Each gesture, each pattern, each detail so right,
So proper and grace-filled, expressive of joy—
Intimidate wholly the poor sidelined boy!
Art-Colored Glasses 
As one of the sidelined, I can assure you I was intimidated! (and still am 😉 )
I was (and am) actually the sidelined girl, myself. 🙂 Very happy to watch dancers, *waaaaaay* too self-conscious and unskilled to join in with them!
There is such brilliance in you dearest Kathryn! In thought, heart, word and image. I don’t mean to bore you with the same tedious praise time and again, but sometimes I just have to open my big yap and tell you what I sees! xoxo
Antoinette, your generosity and sweetness bolster me up more than I can say. I thank you!!!
xoxoxo
Kathryn
Enjoyed today’s offerings, Kathryn, but I so identify with the sidelined boy. It’s a wonder I ever felt a dance floor under my feet! And, as always, your artwork add so much to the post.
Ha! I can think of exactly two times I actually went out on a dance floor (for about one ‘dance’ each time, if you could call it that), and both times felt horrendously out of place. So I know that my place is strictly on the sidelines. But as long as people don’t take offense that I genuinely *prefer* it there, safely watching, I am very happy to watch others strut their stuff.
You do, indeed, write with a fine KI unique style.
Disinheriting & dancing, interesting subject combo. Somewhere in there is an analogy,
a metaphor or simile but brain broils with trying to come up with one; getting late in the day for this brain…
Don’t worry: if my stuff made any real sense, I’d have been a much better scholar and gotten/kept a real job, probably! 😉
‘Patterns of elegance, synchronized moves,
Footsteps as fluid as flowing in grooves’
This could describe your creativity and spirit, Kathryn!
I’m very happy you think so, my sweet–‘on paper’ is the only place I’m likely to be graceful or coordinated. 🙂