As If!

The Wordle

SUNDAY WHIRL

We are asked to use all the words in the Wordle

AS IF!

My girlhood was spent in a garden

Where all was sprayed with gold,

At least, that's how I remember it

Now I am very old.

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I swing from a tall tree

My cheeks are bright and rosy.

I carry a spray of wild flowers;

A sweet and fragrant posy.

The grasses cover the meadow

Where pollen's powders lie.

A stray bee buzzes by me,

Then darts off in the sky.

I fling wide my arms to existence

Overcome with erotic glee.

This world is a heaven

And it all belongs to me!

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Talk about self-deception!

I was pale and melancholy,

Standing at the bus-stop

In my glasses, with a brolly!

'Distance lends enchantment'

Isn't that what they say?

Youth wasn't very romantic!

 Three cheers for today!

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NOT YET!

One day I'll try sushi, but not yet!

The very thought fills me with mal de mere.

I look at it in shops and start to sweat

At the thought of all the 'foreign-ess' in there.

Raw fish! I can't imagine how it tastes!

And someone mentioned seaweed once or twice!

All sorts of strange and oriental pastes

Made to appear as normal by the rice.

My grandsons salivate at just the thought

Of 'Sushi for supper' and they shout 'Yippee!'

But I will, here and now, loudly report

That sushi is, for certain, not for me!

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