Buy Sequins & Collecting Dropped Sequins - Inspired a Comical Poem, dress post 705 by Angela Lansbury

 



I bought a silver sequin skirt

To match my smart red sequin top

I planned to sew more on a hat

I ordered more in a job lot


I did not need them, for I found

My skirt dropped sequins on the ground

I could not stop the moulting top

From growing sequins like snowdrops


My skirt's dropping glinting sequins 

In every room where I go

If I commit the smallest crime 

The dumbest detective will know


Like Greek myth creatures in a maze

They'll follow all my dozy ways

In restaurants, malls and small shops

More well-dressed ladies also drop


On New Year's Eve, in discoteques

Plus places you would not expect

Teens seek attention on the trains

Like rainbows in drains when it rains


I've found them near, I've found them far

I've picked them up, stored in a jar

One day I'll have a great selection

In my precious free collection


I'll sew them on new clothes to wear

On caps and boots - braided in hair

Sequin delights I love to share.

So passers-by will stop and stare


They're colourful, washed clean, and free

Mirror the happy soul in me

Like dogs which stop to sniff a tree

Each tiny colour waves at me.

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