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silverhenge
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| Subject: the garden widower August 13th 2010, 9:46 pm | |
| When I first met Belinda things were super, We wed and yet our early married life Revealed I'd made an elementary blooper Because her favourite pastime brought me strife.
Aware how she was very keen on gardening, I tried to make it work, I did my best, Though gradually I felt relations hardening, A hobby's fine but she was quite obsessed.
Attracted by her wit and so curvaceous, Belinda seemed the perfect catch to me, I didn't dream that everything herbaceous And evergreen would undermine my glee.
I always hoped in vain maybe tomorrow might Return the spark then love could be reborn, While she stocked up on her supply of Tomorite For flowers that surrounded our lush lawn.
She even bought a gnome, a wizened migdet, She dubbed him Mr O'Shea and alone He made me so uncomfortable I'd fidget, He stared up at me from his comfy stone.
Her friends, Maxine and simpering Veronica Would often visit, boring me to death Discussing compost, fuschia and japonica, I saw them as the witches from Macbeth.
The final straw came at a garden centre, We argued badly and I stormed off home; I lost my rag, I let the red mist enter Then grabbed my hammer and rushed to her gnome.
He seemed to represent domestic trouble, I swung the hammer hard, after my hits Decapitated cleanly at the double Old Mr O'Shea shattered into bits.
Belinda got back and she hit the roof of course, She cited my act as another piece Of evidence to manufacture our divorce, Admitting guilt I longed for that release.
Belinda's gone and with her all the yelling, Today I'm in a flat, what makes it pass The test as my ideal and chosen dwelling? It doesn't have a single blade of grass.
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| | | hearmyverse
Posts : 365 Karma : 38 Location : Liverpool. UK
| Subject: Re: the garden widower August 14th 2010, 8:10 pm | |
| Oh I just loved this a touch of sadness but also humor. EXALT | |
| | | rrje4019
Posts : 166 Karma : 46 Location : Long Island New York
| Subject: Re: the garden widower August 16th 2010, 4:05 pm | |
| YOU GAVE THE BOOT TO SHE WHO LOVED THE ROOT INSTEAD OF TENDING YOU SHE LOVED THE GARDEN HEW
Silverhenge this was a funny write and in the end everyone reaped from what they had sown hahahahaha | |
| | | parttimepoet
Posts : 471 Karma : 102 Location : Hertfordshire, U.K
| Subject: Re: the garden widower August 22nd 2010, 8:12 pm | |
| Very funny write silverhenge, perfect rhyme, as usual. Really made me smile, thanks for sharing, ptp x | |
| | | Carousal
Posts : 741 Karma : 241
| Subject: Re: the garden widower September 22nd 2010, 1:03 pm | |
| Who are these people that breed gnomes. There is a house a mile away from me that is a veritable gnome’s playground. Sad gnomes, happy gnomes, fishing gnomes etc, they have even provided them with a slide and a swing and in a corner I swear that two of these stunted pieces of pottery are engaged in sex. I am in complete agreement with your act of violence, lend me your hammer.
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