If I were a button

POSTED IN contemporary poetry July 4, 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If I were a button

If I were a button,
What button should I be?
Perhaps a little pearly button
To show the magic side of me.

Maybe a chunky button
Which can’t quite fit the hole
No matter how you twist me
I’ll never fit the mould.

A bobbly little button
So frivolous and gay,
Alas you’ll lose me often
With your rough and tumble play.

Square or round or oblong,
Big or small or plain,
Snaking down your shirt front
Not one of me the same.

Or rattling in a button jar
With all my button friends
Waiting to be picked by you
To fasten your loose ends.

 

Amanda Edwards
New Zealand