A Penny For A Tick Poem by nimal dunuhinga

A Penny For A Tick

Rating: 5.0


If the dreams come true how beautiful the ugliest life!

The slippery Zig Zag road ends at the village Manor
And we got down, myself & wife from our tumbledown car!
It's a small drizzle and a Twilight
The Sun offs for the day it seems.
The Baron and the Baroness happy with us
For their advertisement in the Pennysaver
And he says; ' You are the ideal couple we expected
And really satisfied by seeing you! '
Wife makes different names of spicy meals
And cleans the household things.
The two Doberman familiar with me
And I pluck their ticks a penny for each.
Cut their high grass in the lawn
And night I read my poems.
The kind Baron offers me a Cuban cigar and a nightcap
And now I don't steal pennies from my beloved's piggy till.
In the night she wears her old nightgowns
And she looks like the Baroness!
I do marketing; Rides the Harley Davidson
That belongs to the Baron's one & only son
Who lives in a different state.
At the backyard there're scattered old tombs
And I guess their ancestors.
Secretly I tell my beloved; 'Darling this is the final roost of our Gypsy journey
And one day they bury us here, We must send the address to our loved ones
Perhaps their offspring win the Green Card Lottery and visit our graves some day! '

To my dearest poet friend Paddy Martin who undergoes a surgery and my blessings for his immediate recovery.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Matt Mooney 14 November 2010

This poem has a story to tell, be it real or imaginary, and it has an atmosphere of of its own-quaint and theatrical. Its worth taking a step further-on stage or as material for a short film.10.

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kalubovila East, Sri Lanka
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