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You can tell when I should be doing something by the time I spend not doing it.
I was looking up a word in the OED, Ostricious[1],when I came across 'Verdantly'. Which does not sound like a word. Verdant? yes, clearly a word but that 'ly' really annoyed me. So I thought I would try and use it. Maybe I have elwhyophobia and using those words is therapy or maybe I just liked the shape of Verdantly, though not the sound.
And I've been reading a book on Celtic Mythology. Which accounts for the title.
Maponas Falling.
At the age of twelve
Climbing a tree.
Young boughs
Verdantly stretch for the sun.
(over a quarry.
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Unconcerned by mortality
Concerned only with tree.
At fifteen a relative dies and you cry.
(Abstractedly:
They were old.)
Years later.
In patterns of branches.
A splintered limb shudders out
memories.
Flashing back to what what might, may,
could have been.
Autumn leaves fall, crisp around your
feet.
And this is the first verse which I removed as it didn't fit with the sombranity[2] of the rest of it.
When you were ten
(indestructible at ten)
You jumped your
Two. Wheel. Bike.
Over a
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Land with a crash
On the grown-up crossbar
The adult males wince.
When you were ten.
You don't do that one again.
Unless you're a stuntman, clearly. But I figure that's quite a specialist grouping.
Toodle pip.
[1] Which doesn't exist.
[2]If they can have Verdently... And clearly, sombranity means to be sombre or have an attack of sombreciosness. Although I sort of prefer it could be the name of Crazy Paco's prices-lower-than-you'd-ever-believe mexican hat sale.