Do or Dare

I watched her dance with her bright red crop

At a party of Do or Dare,

Strutting her stuff on a table top

I knew I could have her there.

For she mouthed at me, ‘You’re the only one,’

As she stripped right down to the buff,

I mouthed, ‘You’re on,’ but she still danced on

I’d never have seen enough.

While all the others would reach and grope

I stood well back and I stared,

She tipped champagne all over their heads

All over the ones that dared,

She fell down into my open arms

Once she had finished her dance,

While Emma Lou took her place up there,

But I’d found a new romance.

I’d gone to the party for Emma Lou

Who’d wanted to meet me there,

She’d said, ‘I feel like taking a chance,

The party’s a Do or Dare.’

We’d only dated a month or two

But that hadn’t got too far,

We’d gone for drinks at the Seven Links

And necked in the back of the car.

But Carla Deane was a ginger dream

For flames had danced in her hair,

The prettiest body I’d ever seen,

I knew she wanted to share,

For in my arms I could feel her charms

And she raised her lips for a kiss,

Her silken skin promised treats within

And who was I to resist?

She dressed again, it was almost ten

When she took me home to her flat,

And poured a couple of highballs, then

She suddenly said, ‘That’s that!’

It seems her wager with Emma Lou

Said she could steal me away,

If she could, anyone else could too,

She didn’t intend to play.

I felt like the dog with a juicy bone

Stood staring into a stream,

And seeing my own reflection there

I’d dropped the bone for a dream.

For Emma Lou never came to call

The bone I’d managed to drop

For one swept over a waterfall

Who’d danced on a table top.

David Lewis Paget

Reviews

[Tony Jordan]

Ahh the silly dog with the bone - one of my favourite fables DLP.
It's quite common-place for ladies to 'test' their men - I even think there's a TV reality show based around it nowadays.
I feel sorry for him in a way. He let his eye wander. And it cost him the apple of it.
Well written rhymes my friend with the DLP sting, of course.

[T.S. Sky]

This is very well told. I love it.

[TPK Stories]

Another well-told story DLP.

[Barbz]

I always wonder if there is a little bit of truth in the Poets fiction. Well done, David.....there are well over a thousand or four reasons that I admire you so......Barbz

[Coyote Poetry]

A amazing tale shared my friend. I love your stories in your poetry. I must buy one of your poetry books. You create wonderful character and dangerous situation of lust and love. Thank you for sharing your outstanding work.
Coyote