Poem for a Lady Wrestler

There be none of Beauty’s daughters

who can wrestle like thee

And like depth-charges on the waters

is thy sweet voice to me.

Thy muscles are like tender alps

with strength beyond compare

Of all the Ladies of the Rings

there is none so fair.

Thy half-nelsons and thy head-locks

thy slammings to the floor

are bliss. But in bedsocks

and pyjamas I love thee even more.