<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358540" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jump Rope</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is menace<br>in its relentless course, round and round,<br>describing an ellipsoid,<br>an airy prison in which a young girl<br>is incarcerated.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whom will she marry? Whom will she love?<br>The rope, like a snake,<br>has the gift of divination,<br>yet reveals only a hint, a single initial.<br>But what if she never misses?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is competence its own reward?<br>Will the rope never strike her ankle,<br>love's bite? The enders turn and turn,<br>two-handed as their arms tire,<br>their enchantments exhausted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It hurts to watch her now,<br>flushed and scowling,<br>her will stronger than her limbs,<br>her braids lashing her shoulders<br>with each small success.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Submitted by Venus</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Connie+Wanek">Connie Wanek</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358540" data-title="Jump Rope de Connie Wanek" data-description="There is menace in its relentless course, round and round, describing an ellipsoid, an airy prison in which a young girl is incarcerated. Whom will she marry? Whom will she love? The rope, like a snake, has the gift of divination, yet reveals onl..."></div> </div> </div>

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