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lemon pips

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Peggy wanders down the rainypuddle path

rescuing worms from a drowny fate.

She walks quicker now.

She mustn’t be too late!

She pops them by the hedge

where they can wriggle free.

“Goodbye worm. Good luck!”

says she.

 

Peggy saves the pips from her lemon tea.

She plants them in old baked bean tins

with holes stamped in the bottom.

She never gets lemons.

 

Peggy loves the man in Otter Lane

but he doesn’t know.

She smiles to herself

as her mind wanders.

Just to see him

once in a while

is enough for her.

Oh simple soul!

 

Peggy collects feathers and dreams that she’s a bird,

and imagines a day when lemons hang heavy

and no worms need rescuing.

And the man in Otter Lane is hers.

And she sleeps sound.

Lucky Peggy!

 

 

 

photo : eccentric paul stevenson

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Comments

<Deleted User> (7073)

Sun 4th Apr 2010 22:37

A gentle sensitive poem,suitably quirky and imaginative, I instinctively like Peggy whoever she is ;-)
Luv TC XX

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Sat 3rd Apr 2010 11:10

Once again - a show-stopper. I am in awe. You have expressed a very sensitive idea, and used sympathetic 'action' to illustrate your point, with superb vocabulary. It is imagination in the purest sense of 'showing truth', which will be new to someone. Interesting that you finally chose 'lemon pips' as the title, stressing the epitome of hope.

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Donna Marie Beck

Sat 3rd Apr 2010 07:52

The world needs more Peggy's x

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Ann Foxglove

Sat 3rd Apr 2010 06:33

Yeah, I don't think she's mad, just a little eccentric and doesn't expect too much from the world. A gentle soul!

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Beulah

Fri 2nd Apr 2010 22:59

mad peggy. lucky peggy. harmeless peggy. a calypsonian, stage name Crazy,had a hit in the caribbean once, called Madness Is Gladness. Not euphoria but gladness. so many look upon glad people as mad people. The mad people that I've come across have never been glad.

lovely descriptive sensitive work.
oh, eccentric peggy!

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Ann Foxglove

Fri 2nd Apr 2010 21:31

Sometimes it's quite soothing to pop into someone else's head, a made-up someone. My aim anyway!

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