The Flapper

12/12/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation



Oh, to be a flapper

With a gentleman so dapper

Dancing the night away

Until the break of day



Listening to the jazz band play

While walking freely by the bay

Sequins and feathers galore

Oh, how I do adore!



Kicking off the shoes we wore

Acting in a way parents deplore

Drinking cocktails from fancy glasses

Breaking barriers between the classes



Tripping through the grasses

Making unseemly passes

Some might think it vapid

I think it more likely sapid



The norms of the time insipid

I’d rather find a cupid

Finding myself a sheik

And enjoying life at the peak