Behind the Mask
BEHIND THE MASK
I’m dressed in blue,
I’m partying,
and yes,
I’ve had a glass or two.
Oh, I’ve embarrassed you.
I am determined to be happy!
Do you like my . . . ?
You know . . . these!
Oh, I’ve embarrassed you.
But you can’t see me . . .
only my public mask.
Yes, it turns you on
this Seventeeth Century mask!
Eternally smiling
like yours, and yours
and yours!!
I have plans for us two…
Smiling faces, all of us!
Hiding reality
with that cheeky grin
These sensuous lips . . .
Let’s party!
I have plans for us two
behind a different mask.
No! Don’t object.
I can see you want to.
Good god, look at you.
Like Piza without the lean!
Like Piza without the lean
9 September 2023
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LIVERPOOL
© 2023 Ian Bradley Marshall
Digital Artwork by KTW
The Gallery is deliberate and it is meant to be sensuous, it is meant to embrace sexuality.
I have followed the theme as seen through the eyes of the Court of Versaille during the reign of Louis XIV.
If I am told to not write about something or to produce digital art
then I generally do just that!
The First Edition of this poem was published in Meanderings, An Anthology of Poetry and Prose (Hardback) in October 2011 by Spiderwize in my author name under the same title.
The short poem was inspired upon viewing a painting by Stephen Collett of Liverpool in 2010-2011
Brought out of the Archive 23 July 2023
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
