Wretched in its belly to fend for itself

                                                                                Author: Jonathan Billinger
Image: Neglected cottage (here)

the 12 given words:
softening hummingbird hover
peony (shrubs having large pink, red, white, or yellow flowers)
burdock (broad-leaved weed that stick to the clothing)
dwindle weeds loss garden whirring stem patterns

3WW given words
fatal harmonious gaping

A softening of the backyard to the Autumn sun

Wretched in its belly to fend for itself

While a hummingbird hovered above

Lost in the thickening undergrowth below

Were little creatures scampering cautiously

Colorful peony dwindled unabashedly

Overtaken by burdock and other weeds

Such loss of desire of a disheartened garden

Where man was not seen anymore whirring with a lawn-mower

Stemmed largely by the crippling effects of arthritis

Fatal to a harmonious exhibition of greenery 

Such were the patterns of existence

Of many elderly couples left on their own

A gaping inconsistency of purpose of parental neglect 

For MMT's Sunday's Whirligig #69 and
Thomg's 3WW week 489