(DAILY PROMPTED POEM) June by Zelda Bean

Daily writing prompt
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

I am named for the horseback rider.

Bareback.

June Glatzel.

Colleen June Glatzel.

She wanted me to be named

Kelly Green.

Green is not my last name,

Grandma!

I wanted to be named Lola.

I wanted to wear a diamond.

My dad called me CJ one time.

Everybody called me Bean all the time.

Grandma’s eyes sparkled.

She had green eyes

and a large nose

that she hated.

I love a distinct nose.

She was so beautiful.

Black hair in a bun.

When she rarely wore it down,

it went all the way past her butt.

She looked like a Native American.

She was gorgeous

Like the name we share.

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