Poor Wee Bush

by damommy

The rhododendron that I bought
and planted it so properly –
you’ll know why I’m so overwrought
when yardmen on my property
clipped places that they hadn’t ought
and now it’s an anomaly.

I tried so hard to understand
how such a thing could happen so.
It seems they were too quick with hand
when they should work a little slow.
So carefully my face deadpanned,
I didn’t want despair to show.

If/when I get my hands on them,
I’ll make sure they remember it,
With clippers, I on them will trim,
they’ll learn to not dismember bits.
I’ll kick them with my footed limb
until they’re begging me to quit.

There was no need to amputate
my poor wee bush’s little arm. (I fear my rant’s too late.)

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A poem based on six-line verses with a closing couplet. Here are the rules:

The Sheshire is comprised of three stanzas of 6 lines with a rhyme scheme of either ABABAB or ABCABC. Completed by a rhymed couplet.

Each line has the same number of syllables. The one exception to this is the last line, which may have up to six additional syllables. The additional syllables must a phrase that is set aside (by parenthesis or dashes, for example). If this aside is removed, the correct syllable count would be there and the line would remain a reasonable sentence.

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Poor Wee Bush

by damommy

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