Carol Tierney...Nobody Knows

The theme of the battle of the bards 09 is wolves (as chosen by last years' winner). Here is a poem written by entrant Carol Tierney.

Nobody Knows

Ginger and silver and ebony dark;
Playground and tea house and swings in the park;
Waitress and princess and sailor at sea;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

Hidden and hiding and hide-and-go-seek;
Bold as a lion or office mouse-meek;
Typewriter-tethered, or open road-free;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

So look for the shadows wherever you are.
Be certain the wolves are never that far.

Physicists, waitresses, stay-at-home wives;
wolves concealed within everyday lives;
Teaching the secrets of man's history;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

Giving an inch while they're taking a mile;
Unpainted faces and lipstick-laced smiles;
Planting a dream or just planting a tree;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

So look for the shadows wherever you are.
Be certain the wolves are never that far.

Northern and southern and right by the sea;
Nobody knows where the wolf's gonna be.
Snow-bound or rain-bound or sunlit and free;
Nobody knows when the wolf you will see.
They've hidden the locks, and they've hidden the key;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

Ginger and silver and rainbow array;
Here just to go and forbidden to stay;
Somewhere too close for your own eyes to see;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

Little blond singers with vagabond curls;
Rose-topped sopranos and fiddler girls;
They're hidden in her, and they're hidden in me;
Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.

Nobody knows who the wolf's gonna be.