I loved you, perhaps more than I should,
But never held back my praises.
After long years of service to kith and to kin,
Your fate now, is pushing up daisies.
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Alas good friend, sturdy and true,
Of stout and ample girth.
Your brittle exterior and mottled interior,
Shall soon return to the earth.
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T’was not by malice that brought you undone,
Nor the cruel hand of fate, serendip.
But a flaw, long hidden, a crack in your side,
Opened you up from handle to lip.
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And now that you’re broken, no matter how hard I try,
Not with glue nor duct tape can you be mended.
Like egg-shells and snowflakes adrift in the void,
This incarnation of yours, is now ended.
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Which isn’t to say you’ll not live again,
After all, we’re all made of celestial stuff.
So Bon Voyage, my companion, honest and true,
Time to rest, you’ll be reborn, soon enough.
Fare-you-well, Little Brown Jug
Widdershins Worlds 
Always sad, when a trusted friend must pass away…
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Indeed, a most unfortunate occurrence. 😦
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A fitting eulogy to a fallen friend. Rest in peace. I will raise a cup in honour.
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Thank you. You do our grief great honour. 😦
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Sad, indeed.
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My heart, she is brok’d. 😦
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I once treasured an antique half pint glass. When we got together again I gave it to Jackie. Some time later I brok’d it.
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Ouch … and only slightly less painful than if she had broken it.
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Sadness! RIP, Little Brown Jug.
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A sad day for us all.
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Oh no! Many condolences sent. Hard to part with a trusted friend.😔
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Thank you … indeed it is … I am reduced to using a gravy-boat until a suitable replacement can be procured – not an easy task in these degenerate times. 😦
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-giggles- I was guessing everything from a pet to a plant. Love the little brown jug. 🙂
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Your levity cuts me to the quick. Mourning leaves no room for such jocularities … and until a suitable replacement can be procured I am forced to use a gravy-boat. A gravy-boat!!! Oh, the humanity. 😦
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LMAO…and ROFL!!!! Forgive my jocularity in your hour of need. I am suitably chastened. . .
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😀
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So sorry for your loss. Perhaps a little Kintsugi is in order?
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My bereaved heart is warmed by your solicitude.
Unfortunately our local Kintsugi-san regretted she was unable to restore the departed to its former glory and recommended that it choose a new life path. The Path was swiftly chosen, and a new incarnation arose … but alas, no longer a milk jug.
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May it rest in pieces.
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Oh, I have so been waiting for someone to say that!!! 😀
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Cheers to Little Brown Jug!
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Such a faithful little brown jug, gone before her time.
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This happened to my favourite coffee mug – a crack appeared – it’s holding together so far – no leaks yet the crack reminds me to go very gently. Also my husband dropped my grandmothers milk jug – one of my other precious things a year ago. We used it all the time because that’s the way I believe precious things should be used…but when it broke beyond repair I did wonder if perhaps I should have put it on a shelf and left it there.
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I believe that beautiful things that are made to be useful, not just pieces of art, (a painting for example) yearn to be useful, to fulfill their purpose … not in the way we humans ‘yearn’, but just as valid.
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I love this thought Widds. My little jug was certainly very useful in its life
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I sympathize with you, but I also love the way you gave a great Ode
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Hi, Vincent. 🙂 … thanks for commenting. 🙂 … I hope you are safe and well. Take care.
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Thanks. I’m doing great thanks.
How are you doing?
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So far, so good. 🙂
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😃yeah
Do you have a pet?
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