She’s actually quite attractive,
in an unconventional way.
Her body’s lean and shapely,
her art captures your gaze.
Metal decorates her ears, pierces
the cutis of her face and neck.
Vibrant ink covers her skin
with intricate designs.
You find it hard not to stare, but she’ll
tell you “look all you want” taking
off her shirt to improve the
view. She loves sharing art.
F.I. Goldhaber’s second poetry collection, Pairs of Poems was ranked number three in the Preditors & Editors readers poll for poems. She has written professionally for more than a quarter century and has won a number of awards for her fiction and poetry. She has had short stories, novelettes, poems, news stories, feature articles, essays, editorial columns, and reviews published in magazines, e-zines, newspapers, calendars, and anthologies as well as three erotica novels published under another name.
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6 Responses to “CANVAS • by F.I. Goldhaber”
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July 20th, 2011 at 12:45 am
Very, very good!
July 20th, 2011 at 9:45 am
Nice poem, sentiments and imagery.
July 20th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Cute poem about belly dancing.
July 20th, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Thanks Rhett and Marc.
Roberta, I’m curious, what in the poem says belly dancing to you?
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:27 am
F.I. Goldhaber:
Belly dancing in many parts of the world is a skilled art requiring much teaching and practice and requires great muscle control. In a very few areas of the world it’s banned as public display. It’s permitted in the U.S.
Belly dancers in many parts of the world are tattooed: “Vibrant ink covers her skin.”
Belly dancers everywhere have metal decorating the cutis of the face and neck (earrings, etc.) and also on the parts of costume covering the upper torso and the hip.
Belly dancers in some parts of the world have costumes which do not include the brassiere part of the usual two-piece costume: “taking off her shirt.”
July 23rd, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I know someone just like this – she’s older now but she would have pulled down her top to show people her latest piercing or tat – her degree was in body art. This poem could have been written about her!