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Crack Me

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Crack me - I am your egg

To mash and to mould and to have and to hold

Chop me or boil me, bake me or fry me

Just promise you’ll try me

You can throw me in anger and watch me go splat

On the suit of some labour or some tory twat

With me you’ll have fun hun, don’t kiss me and run hun

Dip into my yolk and just see how I run….

Cos I’m such a good lay, every whim I’ll obey

You can whip me or beat me

Don’t care how you treat me

You can split me in two, take the parts that’s for you

You can fracture and maim, call the tunes, name the game

You can scramble my brain, with the pain of disdain

A lady, an angel, a nun I am not.

So eat me up fresh but don’t leave me to rot…

And I’m hard on the out but I’m soft on the in

Don’t press me too hard cos my shell’s rather thin

Do I sense some reluctance? Do I feel you holding back?

Too much yolk in this heart? Or the beauty I lack?

Was the hunt just more fun than the egg that you won?

Stick a pin in my head, blow my brains out instead

A paper thin skin and no substance within

I’ll be your trophy, the notch on your belt

I’ll be the love lost, the love never felt

And I will fit in the palm of your hand

To crack or to crush, hon - I’m at your command…

Crack me, I am your egg…

 

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<Deleted User> (6344)

Sun 21st Jun 2009 15:03

Hi Joan,

Thanks for the comment on my poem. I like 'Crack Me' a lot. Witty, but with a serious core.

Rachel

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winston plowes

Sun 7th Jun 2009 19:36

Eggcellent... (groan) Many people have left comments worse than this on my posts so I have taken this opportunity (Sorry). Hello Joan and welcome to WOL. More seriously... this was a good read, enjoyed the comedy bits esp. Win x

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George Stanworth

Sun 7th Jun 2009 16:04

I love this poem Joan. It is funny but works on a number of different levels. I enjoy the way the egg is used as a metaphor to represent the fragility of the self. It has great rhythm and pace to it also.
George

<Deleted User> (5646)

Sun 7th Jun 2009 14:36

Hello Joan,
just browsing around the site and spotted this one. Just about says it all for me.
Yes it is witty but has so much deeper meaning to it which is not really funny when one is at the other end of it. :-)
Janet Ramsden.

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carol falaki

Sun 7th Jun 2009 10:29

ouch, a crackin' good read

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Francine

Sun 7th Jun 2009 00:57

Love this Joan... so witty

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Steve Regan

Sat 6th Jun 2009 23:00

A funny poem wiht some good symbolic imagery expressing the passion of human relationships. Well done, Joan, and welcome to WoL's poetry universe.You use the expression "hun" in the poem - so are ye from Merseyside? And would you like to come to the Bards of New Brighton poetry sessions?

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Gus Jonsson

Sat 6th Jun 2009 21:06


Drove my poor cousin Humpty up and right off the wall being an egg...

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