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Life in speech parts

Life is the noun, cartwheeling abandon

The laughing girl running

Running to her future

Breathing the present,

playing and missing

May’s tickling pollen

She is the pronoun, meeting love in June

Innocent,

with strength in

her hair, then

becoming

a wife

Making life

That is real success

Yes - It has to be

Mothering is the verb with postnatal

friends like joy and duty

Friends that compress, suppress

Gone in a flash and

the babies always need another feed

Bright is the apt adjective for ladies

like her,

Tirelessly juggling. The adverb slowly begins

To haunt and she breaks

Why didn’t the dream Convertible come?

The preposition blinks

by your life and your gears (the conjunction)

I wonder how much grease will sustain you?

retirement eases in

It’s welcome

An unwelcome illness knocks on her door

No!

The interjection says

If life slips, then it

would feel like the end

of our species

An inverse of Darwin

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