<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460756" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0300 Dante on Mowing the Front Lawn</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let's not go into the matter of that <br>dark wood in our back garden which <br>shames us in the eyes of our<br>prissy neighbours (we call it<br>our 'poetic arbour', where<br>camelopards roam) -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">mowing the lawn - that's all I can manage<br>between poetic stints: <br>it's hell when you put it off -<br>the wife, the pointed looks from<br>those prissy neighbours, the<br>pricks of social conscience, and<br>the guilt...oh the guilt...<br>sins of omission, all that stuff, I'm <br>in and out of the confession box...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then when I get round to it at last<br>it's purgatory - the grass is long, <br>gets in the rollers at the hub, it's<br>wet at the roots, tears when it should cut, <br>bald brown patches revealed -<br>the neighbours' children do their<br>'watch and pretend to hide their suppressed<br>laughter with a hand and a smirk' act... but</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's sheer (sheared?) paradise when<br>it's done and I can look the neighbours<br>in the eye and dare them to<br>make some pointed remark in<br>the guise of compliment - how I hate<br>this pre-modern irony, Juvenal started it...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all this to get a whiff of paradise...<br>and now it's just rained this morning and<br>the bloody grass looks unshaven<br>already... lawnmowing, it's just <br>one eternal round - look, <br>the neighbour's out already with his<br>swanky new machine; it's<br>a real human comedy</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(thanks to Adam and The Poetry Society for the initial inspiration)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</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=460756" data-title="0300 Dante on Mowing the Front Lawn de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Let's not go into the matter of that dark wood in our back garden which shames us in the eyes of our prissy neighbours (we call it our 'poetic arbour', where camelopards roam) - mowing the lawn - that's all I can manage between poetic stints: ..."></div> </div> </div>

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