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Hibernating from the spring until Autumn, who knows where, maybe under garden heaps, now triggered as December snowflakes come, the single glove now rouses from it's sleep. On pavements fingers point accusingly or maybe show places where one might slip, one looked liked it was going to pounce on me and hold my throat in some icy death grip. I know it's self propelled, that I can prove, I've gone past one and left it on the ground, yet later walking back it's surely moved up on a wall, near where it had been found. On a fence post, one finger in the air a gesture showing that it doesn't care.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 1/25/2018 5:41:00 PM
made me smile - Light & Love
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Date: 12/11/2017 9:52:00 AM
It's like the story of my life with the same gesture as well..... I enjoyed it..
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Pashang Salehi
Date: 12/19/2017 1:37:00 PM
Always, Merry Christmas...
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Viv Wigley
Date: 12/14/2017 1:00:00 AM
Thanks, Pashang, glad it made you smile.
Date: 12/10/2017 2:35:00 PM
Lol! Oh Viv, this is a lovely and witty write that inspired a smile and a giggle. Love your closing couplet. Excellent and enjoyed! ~Susan
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Date: 12/10/2017 6:36:00 AM
ha ha ha I have just one of my favourite leather gloves I lost the other one in the street and still dream of them being united. I did check the washing machine in case it had migrated there with the all the socks the machine seems to eat - is this something that just happens to old Derbians lol, that said I will probably never return there!:-( hugs jan xx
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Viv Wigley
Date: 12/14/2017 1:01:00 AM
Thanks, Jan, I look forward to your poem telling of the touching reunion. Touching- geddit? x
Date: 12/10/2017 6:07:00 AM
Hahaha.... You have to love that Derbyshire humour! How many gloves go missing, just like socks...
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Viv Wigley
Date: 12/14/2017 1:01:00 AM
Socks just do a runner, Silent One. Thanks for popping by.

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