Spoiled in the sun
Every yen and fancy
Came her way
Spurned as a child
He, silenced by all
Aging fruit sweetens in decay
Bears to the beehive
Moths to a flame
A spoiler to decelerate—
Avoid the crash!
…Or
…..soften
……this
…….end
……game
dVerse prompt for quadrille Monday is spoil. Playing with this word, there are three meanings here. Gotta have fun with words!
mehflowers 
Love this, Mary – the meeting of opposites, the ending.
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Thank you. Must be a completion of some kind going on, but doesn’t always work.
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Oh this is so pretty. Loved it 🙂❤️
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Mary, I meant to add bitter-sweet after pretty 😔
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Oh, now your comment makes sense. Thank you!
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Yes thank goodness otherwise you would have thought me weird 🤣
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No, I’d think you a poet! 🙂
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I like your observation that aging fruit sweetens with decay.
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spurned at first….then sweetened by ageing…..the metaphor of fruit is used quite well here.
So glad you posted to the prompt!
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Nice lines: “Bears to the beehive
Moths to a flame” hopefully avoiding the crash.
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Love the play on opposites here… but mostly the sweetened decay.
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This is simply magnificent. You have opened somehow a window into two people dancing in attraction, conflict, and contrast, and have somehow evoked such longing and frustration without hardly saying anything explicit. It is like magic, it is like emotion itself put out on to the page, like a type of ineffable clairvoyance. With just 44 little words we feel like we know so much about two individuals in both an epic scope and a private corner. Again, magnificent, simply masterful!
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And I like the contrast in the choices, mirroring the contrast in the individuals, each can either stand their ground firmly and crash, or find some accommodation, to soften… this… end…. game. tender.
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economical use of words to describe more than one spoil, well done Mary, I am was delightfully amused with the spoils and spoiled
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“aging fruit sweetens in decay” Love this line, and the opposite play.
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