Words: deliberate, degree, sign, native, approach, inability
Garden Rights by Linda Gordon
If at the first sign you hesitate
to approach…
And, instead, linger to deliberate
The degree to which
Those native-born weeds
Can assimilate and cross-pollinate,
With warp speed, they will propagate
And your inability to eradicate
Them from your carefully planted seeds
Might be grounds to capitulate
Marital Distress by Shawn Blakeley
He was native to the silence, to the degree he never imagined. Jacob deliberately approached Kayla. She gave no sign of notice of his inability to communicate his true feelings. He’d try once more.
“Kayla, I’ve been a fool. I love you always will.”
She stood up and walked away