Love No Love

’Twas raining cats and dogs, 
Then a hard drizzle over the bogs.
I was the one with umbrella in-house; 
But a girl needed to reach her house - 
Beauty this deep must not souse!

This girl I offered to helping, 
But heard me some fellas yelping: 
Your best chance, your best try!
Yet soaking to keep her dry,
Put my umbrella over hairs plaited wry.

If only she'll look me with a smile,
It’ll make wooing a thing worthwhile; 
But all the uneasy way through, 
On her face she wore a forbidding cool
As though I smelled of a kiddy’s stool.

I took her number, nonetheless, 
Promising to bring an umbrella no less
Every time the heavens poured.
But on reaching my place of board, 
And seeing it a figure short was bored.

Argh! howled I in a voice so mean,
Ruing the guile she wreaked upon m’being.
So next time the rains were to fall, 
Swore I the darkest oath of all,
My umbrella she’ll never have this doll!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017



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Date: 6/11/2017 10:44:00 AM
What a miserable rainy day that was! I feel for you, it must have been terrible. Welcome to PoetrySoup :)
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Date: 6/11/2017 3:51:00 PM
Thanks, Darren. Terrible day it was when she said "No". Lol
Date: 6/11/2017 9:43:00 AM
Once love was denied me, after years courting, what more can a man do than pen it down the sacrifice that met with cruel rejection?
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