Their love was warm and bright
Shining forth from virescent eyes
Wrapped within their strength of passion,
They held each other close
Muscular solid arms entwined her
His demure lass of fashion
Courting, walking out, blinded by love
Oblivious to others within their view,
Unintentional disregard, no dispassion
A calendar date for their union settled
First warm blossomed day of spring
When the new year recovers from Ashen
Blissfully together in love
Securely cabined within the woods
Their love-making unrationed
Marriage consummated, adolescent-like love,
Their love bears fruit of either gender
Joyful parental occasion
This loving family played gently.
Lives entwined, becoming one from four
They were love’s standing ovation
It transfixed this family
Ecstatic to be in their world
No action by others could unfasten
But tragedy struck their merriment
On the bank by the fast-flowing river
The children, to their deaths, hastened.
Both parents did everything to save them
But they lost them in the spray and foam
There was no air in this aeration
Distraught parents fired by sorrow
Inner hatred blackened their eyes
Blaming each other for this causation
Jenny threw herself into the waters
Searching, but she too found death
Her life and love in cessation
Desolate, he retreated deep into the forest
No longer recognisable or accessible to others
Living forever in self damnation
He seeks only his own sorrow
Camouflaged within the verdant undergrowth
He has succumbed to ferned enation
If you’re foolish to venture unprepared.
Into the darkness of the forest, take heed,
The green man wails in utter frustration
Travel deeper within those sacred woods
And that wind-like moaning you hear
Is the Green Man’s groans from flagellation
Elsewhere, the gods' spare death
Jenny lives now in the nether world
In her watery suspension
Prone and still on the river’s bed
Jenny Greenteeth awaits the unwary child
Enticing and beguiling by seduction
She wants playmates for her twins
She needs friends for her little ones
Alluring those to a watery abduction
Jenny’s beauty had dissolved
Now camouflaged with river-green skin,
Long hair, and Pike-like dentition
Hiding stealthfully below a carpet,
Of little green-eyed duckweed
She awaits her next deathly absorption
The Green Man and Jenny Greenteeth
Live on, in the shadows and the shallows,
Thriving on our fears and superstitions.
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