He Stood You Up?
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Against the station pole she’s leaning
Heart palpating, heady, dreaming
As only a heart in love can hope
He’s coming
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But he doesn’t… three long hours
Her eyes the crowd filled station scours
And upturned face has thence turned dour
Examining her wilted flower
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Is he married, was he lying
Perhaps now he’s inside dying
But she’s not crying, she’s applying
That thin veneer to keep her trying
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To be stood up
Thus is a doozy
Suddenly it made her woozy
Careful what you dream, be choosy
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What a man! He said he’d meet her
Online chat he seemed so eager
But was she almost off to danger
Narrowly to join a stranger
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That email man she’ll never meet
She’ll leave him in that virtual dream
Smiles perfect in her memory
But does he think of her, does he?
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~Julie Robinson
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I wrote this poem in response to another blogger’s story of being stiffed by an online love when she had her “You’ve Got Mail” un-encounter that scene where the fellow Shop Around the Corner workers say “He Stood You Up?” I have my own story where I met a man online – how much of it did that movie cause??? He didn’t stand me up but he was very strange and I was glad it was only a coffee date. I was able to sip it fast and zip out with no harm done.
One always needs to be careful when dating.
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Wow! That was brilliant…the poem I mean.
It was of course a rough experience to go through – a big learning curve!
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All of life a learning curve it seems to me. I’ve got my doozies! I just had that poem come to me and I’m doing that October challenge (not even a poet) and having to do one each day makes every experience a poem. For your experience you wrote about I could just visualize it like a scene in a movie.
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online dating exists in a virtual world stepping into a real one. often a great divergence between the two…
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Probably better to stick with fictional characters so as to not try and meet.
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