Don’t call me Ma’am,
it just isn’t right.
I know down here in the south,
parents have raised their children to be polite.
It makes me feel old,
and that just isn’t me.
Save your Ma’ams for some other old person,
I am only 53.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- To What Serves Mortal Beauty? poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The First Chantey by Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Levine – Philip Levine
- A woman’s desire by Oriada Dajko
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees
- Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves by William Butler Yeats
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “Irish Melodies”. 58. Farewell! – But Whenever You Welcome the Hour. Томас Мур.
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- A Florilegium poem – Alfred Austin
- I love you by Inganathi Ntantiso
- To Fanny poem – John Keats poems
- Premature Blindness by Winston Riley
- Федор Сологуб – В этот час
- Not even a child by Miles
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).