It had adorned the bookshelf for thirty years,
The beautiful lover’s rose sealed in the long-stemmed glass that he had given her on their first anniversary.
He had slipped,
CRASH
glass…
Fell to the floor
SMASH
Broken beyond recognition.
He was in the doghouse.
©Alison Jean Hankinson
This is for d’Verse quadrille night. We were asked to write about SMASH.
The glass with the rose has travelled halfway round the world and back in shipping containers, spending weeks at sea….so I have no idea how it remains unbroken.
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I feel sad reading this, Alison.
Much🖤love
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Please don’t be sad, it isn’t really broken and if it ever gets broken we will just stick it back together…
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Love the onomatopoeia here!
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I’m shocked that it lasted that long, it has fall over written all over it. I feel bad for him 😦
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It isn’t broken really…well not yet, it has just celebrated its 30th…
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Ah, good! Hope it lasts another 30.
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Oh no, a sad accident. Hope, she wasn’t mad for too long! Great use of sounds in your poem. 🙂
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Thank you.
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Uhoh!😱
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That’s why I give people multiple mementos. The hope is for at least one to survive living. 😉
Nice job!
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Heartbreaking if it really did happen, even if you could glue it back together. Never the same (Though I suppose that in some cultures, the breakage and repair would enhance the item’s worth.)
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That will do it every time… Puts you in the doghouse for sure
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He is definitely in trouble. Nicely done.
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I should think so. Maybe the rose petals could be put in something else…at least I hope so.
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Good to see that it still remain unbroken… I could understand the doghouse (he would probably go there voluntarily)
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It must be a lucky vase, Alison, to last so long. My husband would have broken it years ago!
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That’s really sad, Alison…
We had a beautiful blown glass vase from our honeymoon that broke 😦 ~ I still miss it…
❤
David
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Not liking that your vase got broken and I am always mindful that the importance is in the memories.
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I’m sure he would be in the dog-house if that did happen 😄🙌
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