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Amy's Place ... Poetry and Potpourri ... September, 2008
September 1, 2008 | JustAmy; St.Louie1; MamaBear; Billie

Posted on 08/31/2008 9:30:31 PM PDT by JustAmy




Welcome To....



'Amy's Place' welcomes all poets
and those who enjoy poetry.
'Amy's Place' is more than just about poetry.
Come in, relax, and share with fellow FReepers
your thoughts about any of the things on the *Menu*.

Enjoy! :)












Never Forget!






Bad Penny




Amy's personal guardian ~
the ever charming, lovable, huggable,

LouieWolf





Many thanks for stopping by. : )











TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Poetry; The Poetry Branch
KEYWORDS: amysplace; friends; poetry; september
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To: jaycee; JustAmy; MEG33; Majie Purple; Lady Jag; La Enchiladita; GodBlessUSA
Which five women have to lay on the bed to get into their blue jeans?

I'm REALLY laughing at this one!

2,761 posted on 09/30/2008 9:38:52 AM PDT by Billie
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To: La Enchiladita

I’ll bet there are more! Last week when i was at the beauty shop, I was sitting in the chair and a lady was standing up talking to me and as I was looking up at her and she said “You have the prettiest green eyes”. I told her I thanked her very much. I don’t get that much so I appreciated it. My brother has green eyes also! We are rekated to cats. LOL! Are you?


2,762 posted on 09/30/2008 9:46:34 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: La Enchiladita

Oh, Dita, I did not know today is Rosh Hashanah - that holiday was not listed on the 3 calendars I used to get the holidays for today. I didn’t even know what Navratri was when it was listed. I had to google it to even know what it meant.


2,763 posted on 09/30/2008 9:46:36 AM PDT by Billie
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To: jaycee
"Which five women have to lay on the bed to get into their blue jeans?"

. . . . . . . and use a hangar to flatten the tummy down, while zipping them? ROTF!!

2,764 posted on 09/30/2008 9:47:57 AM PDT by yorkie (For God so loved the world, that He DIDN'T send a committee.........)
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To: Billie

ROFL!


2,765 posted on 09/30/2008 9:50:04 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: Billie

ROFL!


2,766 posted on 09/30/2008 9:50:31 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: La Enchiladita; jaycee
Of course we are cousins!!

The reunion is anytime y'all can make it. Yorkie's Kitchen is always open! (Of course it would be nice to have help with the dishes........) LOL!

2,767 posted on 09/30/2008 9:51:36 AM PDT by yorkie (For God so loved the world, that He DIDN'T send a committee.........)
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To: JustAmy
Billie, Thank you for opening the doors today with the cutest Welcome!! I love that little girl and the music.

Thanks, Amy - I like all kinds of music, and it's fun (to me) to listen to a song and make it fit a particular graphic.

Your Holiday graphics are great; can I play Jeopardy? :) Was that a stoopid question?

Thank you, and LOL - yes, it was a stoopid question, but unfortunately, even if it were the correct stoopid question, you cannot play today. :)

Thank you for all you do for Amy's Place.

I have so much fun doing it - thank you for thanking me - and always with such a pretty graphic. :)

2,768 posted on 09/30/2008 9:54:24 AM PDT by Billie
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To: yorkie; Billie

I am giggling right now, really! Too funny! I’m glad we have gun. I just thought of another question for Billie?

Which of the five ladies listed will not be able to get into her blue jeans after she eats the pot roast with potatoes, carrots and onions, that she is cooking for dinner tonight?

I am going to charge anyone who knocks on my door just to get in to smell this roast! LOL~~~~


2,769 posted on 09/30/2008 9:54:46 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: yorkie

No way. We stand up and jump up and down, sort of jumping into the jeans as it were:-)


2,770 posted on 09/30/2008 9:54:54 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Never Forget, 9-11-01)
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To: La Enchiladita
Dita!!
How are you?



2,771 posted on 09/30/2008 9:57:23 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA ( God Bless You and Thank You! Prayers said for our Heroes!)
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To: jaycee; MEG33; yorkie

There are 4 of us so far. I don’t know if my green eyes are from the Irish side or the German.....am also 1/8 Welsh, so it could be any of them.


2,772 posted on 09/30/2008 9:58:19 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Never Forget, 9-11-01)
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To: yorkie; Billie

# 2769....I giggled again when I said “gun, instead of fun”. I am not drinking, I swear!

Have gun, will travel!

Maybe someone slipped something into my milk at breakfast....I had 3 L’s in Billie’s name again and they told me no, no, no~~~LOL!


2,773 posted on 09/30/2008 9:58:40 AM PDT by jaycee
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To: GodBlessUSA

Oh, I loves mousie playing with the petals, ((GeeBee))!!
I’m fine and it is a gorgeous day hereabouts!!

How are you and BooBoo?


2,774 posted on 09/30/2008 10:00:03 AM PDT by La Enchiladita (Never Forget, 9-11-01)
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To: Billie; JustAmy; yorkie; OESY; MEG33; jaycee; Mama_Bear; The Mayor; ST.LOUIE1; ConorMacNessa; ...


The Tree of Life (2003)

1
The tree of all life divides
The limbs and branches bifurcate,
Yearning growth shall not subside
The will of life will not abate

2
With men and leaves the same
Our family lines divide
Through this freely flowing vein
Life's hope, the young derive

3
The branch from which you grow
Will tell you who is kin,
And all those we truly know,
Are those we call our friends

4
This simple truth of bloodline fire,
No greater gift is known,
Than knowing why our hearts aspire,
To forever cherish our own.

5
Like leaves we live and fall,
On branches we all abound
The graves that catch us all,
Are scattered on the ground

6
We all return to soil,
This fate for both is known
For seeds are grown like souls,
In death new life is sown

7
The ties that bind us taut,
Man's family tree of souls
Are like leaves naturally wrought,
On branches perched on knolls

8
While deep within the roots descend,
Life's intercourse with ground
At each and every sunray's end,
Stirs life, in mysteries bound

9
In this endless cycle of life,
The past is future true
The days follow the starlit nights,
As the sun gives way to the moon

10
The tides slowly ebb and flow,
As mountains rise and fall
Winters warm to summers' glow,
And spring gives birth to all

11
Life's chance is in the center
Between the dark and light,
Outward, it grows, from the inner
As diverging patterns fight

12
The voids define the forms,
And the chaos stirs the order
For all opposing forces burn,
Brightest at their border

13
To each and every living thing
The call of life will enthrall,
From the mysteries, up we spring,
Then to them back we fall

14
The worm awaits its feast
Our master in the ground,
The most becomes the least
Our death to dust is bound

15
Like leaves we have a season,
We pass through life so fast
And no one knows the reason,
That youth and life can't last

16
All life awaits its chance
To grow and plant its seed,
And hope the future grants
Its single greatest need

17
To be a part of life
With roots secured in ground,
While through the bitter strife
New hopes are made or found

 

18
To reproduce the best
And minimize our faults,
And through our lives attest,
By that which we exalt!

19
To know of things greater
Than the small part we play,
To know what Creator
Produced us from the fray

20
For leaves and men the same
Our time is frail and brief,
Cruelty has not been tamed
Nor fairness worth belief

21
Some leaves wither and die,
Because they grew too low
And others, perched up reaching high,
Shall never peaceful shadows know

22
For growing high, up above
Has many sights unseen,
Like the moist gift to all beloved,
The silky-shaded dues that gleam

23
Some seem like perfect leaves
With broad and beautiful forms,
Yet caught up in a gentle breeze
From life they may be torn

24
Most are average size and form,
While others grow not well
Some were diseased and deformed
And quickly died and fell

25
The cycles of life will pass through
Its purposes will be fulfilled,
And when destiny wants to take you
No matter what — it will

26
Give yourself to this flow
And enjoy the time as you wait,
You may only resist to learn and grow
But you cannot resist your fate

27
For nature is very resourceful
Its mistakes are with pure intent,
It is never at all remorseful
And shall never through force relent

28
So do not fight its mighty plan
Or force will be met with force,
And in this yielding peaceful span
Shall men then know their course

29
Life's truth is so simple,
Its purity is cold and divine,
The skies are our holy temple
Under which we are all entwined

30
We all yearn for knowledge
The light we need to grow,
We must however acknowledge,
Some things, we cannot know

31
Once we accept our Creator's design
Living in joy can then begin,
This is the wisdom eluding mankind
It is our pride, we must transcend

32
Take what life has to offer you
And make it the best you can,
And understand the simple truth
That it is sufficient, to be a man

33
Accept your place in nature
The truth, you will then plainly see,
We're but a melody, in one grand overture
Like the rustling leaves of a tree.

Bryant H. McGill

 


2,775 posted on 09/30/2008 10:03:14 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Billie
Wanna Play? ... Who can come closest to correct?

I think I can come furthest from correct.

2,776 posted on 09/30/2008 10:03:37 AM PDT by Diver Dave
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To: La Enchiladita

English and Scotch-Irish here.


2,777 posted on 09/30/2008 10:07:39 AM PDT by MEG33 (God Bless Our Military)
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To: All

Lunch time here - I will be back. You’re are too much fun!


2,778 posted on 09/30/2008 10:10:01 AM PDT by Billie
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To: Billie
... that holiday was not listed on the 3 calendars I used to get the holidays for today...

Also missing from the calendar is the 45th anniversary of a certain toe-headed 18 year old's Navy enlistment. I'm sure it was in all the papers waaaay back when. :)

Now I feel really old.

2,779 posted on 09/30/2008 10:14:13 AM PDT by Diver Dave
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To: JustAmy; MEG33; La Enchiladita; Kitty Mittens; pollywog; yorkie; Billie; Mama_Bear; GodBlessUSA; ...



Wonder why frogs don't have green eyes. "Its not easy being green, you know......."
2,780 posted on 09/30/2008 10:16:22 AM PDT by jaycee
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