Bill, I know exactly how you feel. I am likewise dismissed for my loving
words or actions. Glumpy indeed - I humpf away and go about my business ...
Good one.
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On 6 April 2016 at 09:34, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> five solid quatrains, Bill.
>
> word-play, lively diction, a thought carried through…
>
> glumpy! mmm, struggling with that word before accepting it.
>
> Max
>
> On Apr 5, 2016, at 14:23, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Imagine a declaration of pent-up passion
> > to your soul mate greeted with smile spread
> > and eye drop. 'That's sweet.' To be seen as sweet
> > is to be dismissed as a player. A lower order
> >
> > nice guy. Sweets come into consideration
> > only after the main course, the real deal.
> > Or as titbits on the side. Lightweights.
> > If so consigned, elevation's doomed.
> >
> > If I sound like a sourpuss, so be it.
> > Sourness sharpens, awakens, challenges.
> > The suddenness - and shock - of sour,
> > subverts saccharine pleasure. Citrus tang
> >
> > zips from the word go, cleanses tissues,
> > attacks your senses honestly, unlike
> > glumpy sweets, taste temptresses whose
> > siren call gut-wrecks, lumps you up.
> >
> > Who'd want to be adjectived sweet? There,
> > there, you little sucker. Who'd have thunk
> > such an innocent reply could rouse such
> > a sour diatribe? Well, at least I'm not bitter.
> >
> > bw
>
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