Poetry Thursday #6
CHANGE is this week's theme in honor of PT's new website. What changes more than women's fashion? Truthfully, my style doesn't change that much, especially with no job to go to. So when I say good-bye to a favorite style or fabric, it is a sad day. Some go to my "vintage closet"--not to wear, but to look at, like a formal my mother made when I was in high school, or my mother-of-the-bride dress from 1993.
This poem is about the last pair of shoulder pads in my closet. Shoulder pads (for women) returned to fashion in the early 1980s after a hiatus of about 30 years. They started small and then became enormous, and gradually disappeared. Now we all have narrow, dainty, child-like shoulders again instead of looking like we suited up for the middle school football team or the soap opera Dynasty.
On removing shoulder pads from a favorite blouse
by Norma Bruce
Feb. 7, 2007
Others told me
(helpful friends)
someday on my own
strength
would I go
to meet the world
tall, strong, confident.
I’d waver; you were silent.
Mirrors told me
(how they lied)
only with your
help
could I climb
the ladder of
greed, success, power.
I’d arrange; you were silent.
Today told me
(glaring lights)
it was now past
time
should I cling
another minute to
padded, shaped, contoured?
Snip and toss; you were silent.
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