Learning the Ropes!

                                                                                          Attribution: Alex Proimos
Image: Teenagers at Play (here)

Written for Irene's hosting at We Write Poems #5

Chosen 22 words out of 33:
slung, heaviness, substance 
elephant, trunk, queer 
fireflies, ribbons, porch 
sliver, full, crescent
cascade, grandmother
 child-like, fool 
green, smell, rope
wild, formidable

In heaviness though a
teenager of substance
He felt let down
Just like an elephant’s trunk
slung across his neck
His stomach felt queer as fireflies float
In ribbons of crescent lights

Child-like seemed like a fool
With smells of hard liquor
He left the party

He cut across the street
To a quaint little house
Settled at the porch
Full of sliver frothing at the mouth
Sweat cascade freely
From his brows

The door opened slowly
A grandmother peeked out
His grandmother

‘He’s still green, he’s just a kid
He’ll go wild in a few years
He's still learning the ropes
He’ll be formidable!’

She knows, seen many
Before him