- Non-Erotic Poetry
- I'm Not Flattered
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"But you don't seem like a Southerner!"
That's what they said
As if it were a compliment.
Just because
I don't fly a Confederate flag
wear a white sheet
or burn crosses.
I don't have big hair.
I don't wear cowboy boots
too-tight jeans
or blue eye-shadow.
I don't drive a truck
or a classic Camaro.
I didn't vote for Jesse Helms.
I don't go to religious revivals.
And my Southern accent is reserved for only
the happiest occasions.
But what they don't know
Is that the South is thick in my veins
like the red clay of my home land.
If I don't seem like a Southerner
It's only because
They don't know
That a Southerner is one who
Loves the smell of honeysuckle
and wisteria after a rain.
Strings beans on the porch
listening to grandmother's stories
and smelling her grandfather's pipe smoke.
Goes fishing with her daddy
and fries fish right there on the dock.
And who knows that a walk in Central Park
Is NOT getting back to nature.
So, "You don't seem like a Southerner"
Is not a compliment,
And I am not flattered.
- COMMENTS
saw_man1about 18 years agoThis is after all, the home of Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Erskine Caldwell, and Mark Twain.
"The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland for an array of Americans who consider themselves Southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends."
-Bill Ferris
lobomaoabout 18 years agonot flattered
but faltered maybe?
it seems a cotton mouth kiss
to react to words such as this;
'you don't seem like southerner'
to then go on about crosses and sheets
rebel flags and burning alabama streets.
Now I wasn't there, so I wouldn't know;
but seems to me that that then there
was a perfect time for a southern belle
to be a southern lady and by example show
what love for the south can truly mean.
carrying hatred only carries it forth,
ignorance is unknowing,
learning is in the growing.
Someone once said
"Let he who is without sin
throw the first stone",
knowing full well the measure of all mankind.
and how long one can carry the weight of a good stone.
