Little black dress

[Jerrybaldy]

Black lacquer limo,
same guests,
frozen gravel,
meandering drive.
Vacant eyes,
curled sandwich,
black tea and ties,
cold smoke outside.
An understated
pat on the back.
I rap a tap tap
brass handles;
O to lie
quite still inside,
handheld, beside,
my burning bride.

[hillwalker]

I'm getting the feeling this is more related to a funeral than any one of four weddings.

H

[Delta40]

This could so easily be read as a wedding or a funeral. Brass handles on a coffin or a door? limo or a hearse? black ties....very well done and so open to interpretation.

[deryk]

This poem is obviously about a wedding that takes place on a planet identical to the Earth that was until previously hidden behind the Sun and is now on a collision course.

Incidentally, it's also a new film.

[MystyrMystyry]

Danse Macabre in an Edgar Allen Poe-tale manner, updated for modern times

[tailor STATELY]

Wonderful poem. Tight & evocative.

I keyed in on "burning bride" and found many google hits - some on legend and some on modern tragedy.

Well done Jerrybaldy.

Sincerely,
tailor STATELY

[Jerrybaldy]

Thank you Peeps.
Hill is spot on as always. I had in mind a funeral quickly following a wedding and therefore a literal burning bride.

[MystyrMystyry]

The handheld is like a play on hand held and a camera recording it - didn't notice that before

[L€lä RËmØ MÅðçÂ]

GOod job. Kudos to you.

[Jerrybaldy]

MM - its so subtle I didnt notice it myself :D
LRM Thanks very much.

[Hawkman]

JB This definately deserves a read. The images are vivid in their darkness :D but it should be lie, not lay, this would also maintain the assonance in your final four line-ends.

Live and be well, or at least as close an approximation of wellness as living can provide :D - H