The Sunday Muse #151. Isn't that just like a man? Just as we're approaching summer, he's leaping back into winter. I considered some Photoshop chicanery to get him headed in the right direction, but then decided he deserved whatever he got! Submitted March 13, 2021
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ah, the folly of foxy fellows
gamboling gaily on lazy summer days
she succumbed to his devilish charm
believing their love would last forever
but summer waned, and so did he
with scarcely the flash of his magnificent tail
he leaped off in a cloud of good intentions.....
to find himself, he promised
but she and the kits knew
himself was ever a liaison away
populating the prairie
Yes, there is a similarity in our tales my friend, but yours is clever and brilliantly told. Sometimes it is better to just let that fox run. Wishing you a wonderful week ahead Beverly with Spring in the air. :-)
ReplyDeleteYou told the tale of heartbreak so well. The foxy fellow out there populating the prairie, having a good time, leaving a trail of broken hearts behind him :(
ReplyDeleteHa, I have lived this tale, sadly more than once. Finding himself was what the last one said; the final nail in the coffin. He was a bit long in the tooth for that line to work. LOL.
ReplyDeleteGolly, Bev, you've written of my first married love, same actions, reverse the sexes. We married young and after thirteen years she needed to find herself, except her new love went with her. I was crushed.
ReplyDeleteMost who are in love want to believe that the love will last forever, it takes two with no slips by either.
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Watch out fot those silver-tongued devils.
ReplyDeleteHimself is a wanderer. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd a 'happy wanderer' I wager ... lots of wonderful lines in this, Bev!
ReplyDeleteAs they say, a leopard doesn't change his spots. She knew he was a rogue when she fell for him. They are so much more fun than the stolid serious ones, or so we think.
ReplyDeletea salutary tale - love the alliteration at the start
ReplyDelete"foxy fellows
gamboling gail"
"he leaped off in a cloud of good intentions..... / to find himself, he promised" - LOL! Yep...
ReplyDeleteFoxy fellow indeed. And their ways! Enjoyable lines.
ReplyDeleteOh what a fox.. There's always another vixen over the horizon. The ones left behind are left to cope.
ReplyDeleteA foxy tale.Good intentions are not part of a fox's psyche.
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