<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455202" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Once they spall-sparkled like foxglove!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The downbeat, downtrodden, joys of love.<br>Once they spall-sparkled like foxglove! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now deflate like a beach ball…<br>Pig’s bladder, words choke, a hairball.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cough out each forgotten phrase! <br>Utterances of the bee, still purveys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But—isn’t partial to a petal…<br>Doesn’t wish, to defile; not a bud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the rose, herself is quite, bruised.<br>Froze, wounded, and suffused: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her pink-briar-arms, no-longer-cling…<br>The white-picket-fence where-once did sing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inside the fountains cave all they grasp<br>Steadfast nettle stinging, an asp…? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O’ they hear torrent; waters past…<br>In their drowning, they cut the mainmast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But remain, anchored to the last.<br>For they’ve made a sticky honey-caste!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Heathcote">Mark Heathcote</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=455202" data-title="Once they spall-sparkled like foxglove! de Mark Heathcote" data-description="The downbeat, downtrodden, joys of love. Once they spall-sparkled like foxglove! But now deflate like a beach ball… Pig’s bladder, words choke, a hairball. And cough out each forgotten phrase! Utterances of the bee, still purveys. But—i..."></div> </div> </div>

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