Saturday, February 14, 2026

Dreaming Of Sequins comical poem 733 by Angela Lansbury

 I'm dreaming of gleaming sequins

Sparkly and flashy, perky as robins 

As rich as fake furs and ermine

Clothes for kings, chaplains and captains


You have nothing to lose by taking a cruise

Just be quiet about your diet

Eat and drink anything you choose

The menu - and dress code, are today's vital news


Cruse ships with space for smart cabins

With basins and hooks for hanging up oilskins

Swim in for drink in, then discos and dancing  

Swing in for sit ins and join in loud sing-ins


Dressed for the buffet, and grand cabaret

Eat enough food to last seven days

Teens deserting jeans for muslin, jerkins, poplins

Feathers and flounces deserving of praise


Sweet demure virgins see kissing cousins

Clowns, harlequins, fancy dress  - dozens

Napkins in rings, blinis and gherkins

Chickens from kitchens, pumpkins, then muffins 


After dinner, shake and shimmer

It's better than gin, you always win

Like music on a violin

Dance in a disco and you'll stay thin


'Where have you been?'

'I've been out shopping'

Woollens soft as lambskins

Purses tough as pigskin


Not thrown in dustbins

Rescued by ragged urchins

Not clothes for goblins

For their spells and wild sins


Swimming, leaping, diving like dolphins

Slip out of swimsuits, borrow safety pins 

Enjoying tiffin, argue about vaccines

Jasmin or lupin handwash, aromas, perfumes


Heady like mountains and fountains

Like sov(e)reigns paid gold sovereigns

More mood-lifting than aspirins

Soothing like wearing moccasins


A sparkling, flittering sequin

As helpful as a vitamin

Energises like an endorphin

A magic mental medicine


Feminine, masculine

Guarded by the faerie Queen

The gaudiest, and loveliest

Sequins I have ever seen


In blue, green, pink and magenta

Silver, gold, red and fuschia

Taste, smell, hear and see the pleasure

In sequin's electric treasure.

-ends-

I typed in sequins, origin of the word, and other words for sequins, then up popped a website giving words which rhymed with sequins. So many of them that I had to write a poem, only slightly absurd.

https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/words-that-rhyme-with/sequins.html

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