2026 Poetry Challenge - Generational - Poems

Met

The Met Gala unfolds
on the streets of New York.
Fashion Is Art,
the theme prescribed
to Green Carpet walkers.

Anna Wintour
matched the runway,
but of course
darling.

Chase Infiniti graced us,
a modern Venus de Milo,
draped in one and a half
million sequins, aligned
into a technicolor dress
version of a confit byaldi.

Beyoncé, our Queen,
our Goddess Bey,
our Co-Chair and
parasocial confidante,
she arrived airing her all:
dazzling skeleton,
debutante daughter,
artful husband.

A different woman,
Madame X if you please
- and her husband, some guy -
they donated ten million dollars.

And let's pause and say, yes.
That is generous.
Even if, no bite your tongue,
it is but a small percentage
of their wealth.

Source aside,
may Art prosper.
May taste persevere.
That's all.

Art captures life
life rushes after art
and so it goes
"...round and round and round
in the circle game"

like Joni Mitchell once sang.


Poet, writer, photographer and slightly distracted day-dreamer who muses on (gestures at everything) from the petty to the profound. On a semi-serious, fully earnest search for meaning in the mayhem. Perimenopausal, melanin-deprived, irony-enhanced recovering perfectionist Type A+ millennial woman. She balances the ever-continuing quest to Know Better/Do Better, with the distinct ego-death of parenting a smart, full-throated child who was raised to know the power of her voice. Mothering a teen means catching a side-eye in almost every interaction. Diana navigates the minutiae of everyday life through seeking the magical in the mundane. Follow along and laugh with her as the world flames out!

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