Anne finds her career …

Poetry, Sometimes, This and That, Writing and Blogging

When Anne was a girl, she always wanted to be
a dancer.  To wear flowing gowns and satiny slippers
and be guided as a sylph, lifting in twirls and leaping high,
up in the air with skirts twirling and shoes barely touching the floor,
and feeling the thrill of the collective sigh……………..from the audience.
But as fate would have it, her two left feet, and her lack of graceful
moves — more like those of a duck than a lovely swan, or
even a goose–combined with her brother’s snickers
she stepped on her skirt instead of her shoes
and tripped over her partner’s feet.

So then, when she saw that a new goal was needed
Anne decided that she wanted to be, when she grew older,
a doctor.  To have a white coat, a stethoscope  and thermometer
and peer into ears and down throats of her patients…to quickly discover
what ailed them…and find a cure, and all of the people would just be
astounded when Little Anne became a Doctor!   A wonderful plan!
It would be  a good position, pay plenty of money, and mean
great prestige…and besides, the town needed a Doctor.
It might have been the perfect profession, except…
she fainted dead away at the first drop of blood.

Not to be derailed on her track to gainful employment
Anne thought long and hard to find just the right profession
that would serve both her ambitions and her need for recognition.
“One thing that I can do well,”said Anne, “without  tripping over any feet
while dancing…or to lose my wits and panic when anyone bleeds…
The perfect job for me (why didn’t I think of it sooner?) is to get
pen and paper, and a computer — and spend my life Writing!”
So she wrote and she wrote, books and poems, and tales
about dancers and doctors, and all kinds of things.

©Sometimes,2016

 

 

22 thoughts on “Anne finds her career …”

    2. sort of! I never wanted to be a doctor, but I did want to be a nurse early in my life. I do have three daughters who are nurses, so I guess that’s pretty close. 🙂 Thanks for commenting.

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      5. Oh I wish I had thought of that. That would have been lovely, but with my time here, I am doubtful if I can pull off a group thing. I hope to make the blog meet up once a month (end of the month) after this, so this will be a good idea.
        What I could possible do right now is start a little poetry thread and ask people to chip into it. Hmm! That might work

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