<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437062" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Smiled And Nodded</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I am losing the freshness of my garden, '<br>She said.<br>Staring at me as she reached for my hand.<br>And anticipating my response.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'This time of the year, <br>I would begin to smell my roses bloom.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I smiled and nodded.<br>And grateful I was to keep my lips sealed.<br>Because the bush I thought she referred to...<br>Began to show signs of drying out, <br>Long before her admission.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do you remember how fragrant it use to be? <br>With just one sniff I was re-energized.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Yep! <br>I remember my addiction to sniffing that freshness.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Would you stop it.<br>You never helped me with the weeding.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~You're right.<br>Especially when you stopped, <br>Softening up the bed.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'There you go again...<br>Not paying me any attention.<br>I am talking about the sweetness of the fragrance.<br>And you refer to my leg hairs.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And grateful I was to keep my lips sealed.<br>Because the bush I thought she referred to...<br>Began to show signs of drying out, <br>Long before her admission.<br>Leg hairs? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">~Oh! <br>So that's how all my razors, <br>Lost their sharpness.~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'That's 'almost' funny.<br>You get no 'hees' but a half of a 'ha' with that one.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~I'm not complaining.<br>When am I going to get a piece of that? ~</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And she removed her hand...<br>With a daring look.<br>As if I wasn't up to the challenge.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=437062" data-title="I Smiled And Nodded de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="'I am losing the freshness of my garden, ' She said. Staring at me as she reached for my hand. And anticipating my response. 'This time of the year, I would begin to smell my roses bloom.' I smiled and nodded. And grateful I was to keep my lips..."></div> </div> </div>

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