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Wren
Member

since 2000-07-05

Posts 312

0 posted 2000-07-18 11:10 PM

Like so many
Limp green tree trunks

A broccoli forest
Bound by a red rubberband

Waits impatiantly
Beneath the cruel spritzer
Of the grocery store shelf

Woe to the broccoli
Whose fate remains

To be shoved beneth the dinner table
Only to whet canine appitite

Hardrock
Senior Member

since 2000-02-14

Posts 948
New Hampshire, USA

1 posted 2000-07-18 11:15 PM

Absolute whimsey....I loved it. My dog loved it. Thanks, Wren...I needed that. Hardrock

lotharingia
Senior Member

since 2000-06-04

Posts 897
saarbruecken, Germany

2 posted 2000-07-19 05:36 AM

A really refreshing one, this! Although I didn't know dogs were keen on broccoli. Mind you, I like broccoli, and I was born in the Chinese year of the dog ...
Oh to live in a broccoli forest (sustainable, of course!)

Lotharingia
"Dreams are life, reality, creation" Miguel de Unanumo

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

3 posted 2000-07-19 10:39 AM

How cute, and fun. Love it. And the last line was too perfect.

Portia
Member

since 2000-05-18

Posts 157

4 posted 2000-07-19 12:24 PM

I liked this one. Poor, poor, broccoli.

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brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

5 posted 2000-07-19 06:19 PM

Wren, this is what the dreaded vegatable deserves. A wonderful poem, almost made me feel sorry for that yucky weed.

why must we pray
screaming? why must not death be redefined? we shut our eyes we stretch out our arms and whirl on a pane of glass-patti smith

Deborah1
Senior Member

since 2000-06-22

Posts 653
New Hampshire

6 posted 2000-07-19 06:35 PM

This was so much fun to read!! I love my brocolli, but my brocolli doesn't love me.... My dogs..will eat anything. Seriously, this was good and thanks for sharing!!

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose...--Hada Bejar

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

7 posted 2000-07-19 07:43 PM

Agreed that is all the broccoli deserves, but looking at it from the vegetable point of view, I suppose it is kind of sad LOL
Good stuff hon

I'll tell you this...... No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.....
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)

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