Beautiful and Enchanting, Billie. Thank you.
Thank you for Opening and Hostessing today's Thread.
Thank you for continuing to bring beauty and fun to Amy's.
HUGS
Posted on 04/30/2009 10:03:17 PM PDT by JustAmy
I remember all but the first one. LOL
Lovely! Your poem paints a serene seasonal dream.
Take care of yourself, Meg! We're all thinking of you.
Thank you Billie, for your beautiful opening! The tranquility of the graphic and poem are perfect together!
(((HUGS)))
Savashar
I remember the great city of Savashar, beside the sounding sea
the great port filled with ships, from everywhere man might be
Towers spring for the sky, topped with banners grand and wide
and where a man’s word was honored, for only others lied
The women dressed in layers of spider silk, veiled grace
with jeweled belts and necklaces, wrapped in rarest lace
Men dressed in the armor of the Knights so bold and true
or the garb of merchant, philosopher, or student as they do
Princely palaces marbled domed in subtle tints of golden hue
and halls of fabled beauty to stun the mortal mind its true
Great knowledge was found in the many schools of thought
and magic was the gift to build the wonders that they wrought
Far and wide, Savashar was known, wherever man did deem to roam
and their art and skills and wisdom were known in every single home
Yet came the day of terror, and the bursting of the mountain into flame
and under surging ash and burning stone, vanished every trace of fame
Today the wind soft does whisper, across the lava fields laid so bare
the sea washed away all man’s memories, of the empire once so fair
The dream is gone that help such promise for all ages yet to come
and in the end the magnificence, becomes the common clay so dumb
Thank you for the beautiful pings!
Love the poem - love this eagle and flag!
Growing up in Texas, and shopping in Dallas, I’m familiar with these cookies and this story, but from someone who LOVES cookies and making cookies, I still have to say that there ‘ain’t’ no cookie recipe worth $250. (besides, I’m not even crazy about this recipe to begin with!) :)
This is such a cute ‘hello’. :)
But who’s going to wake YOU up?! :)
This is beautiful, Johnn.
Hope the pain in your neck and collarbone is about gone by now. Ice or heat? I can never remember which to use. :(
I love that sound, too..Spent our best times at the lake when my kids were growing up. My kids think so too.
First ice yesterday..Hot shower later.
It is much better today..but I am trying to stay away from the computer. One wrong move and it hurts.
Thank you, jaycee. And thank you for your cute and sweet posts this weekend.
LOL! So cute!
Oh, thank you, Amy, and have to tell you how beautiful your ‘thank you’ graphic and frame is! Really ‘enchanting’, too!
Thanks, LadyJ - would love to ‘be’ there, sitting in that rowboat, just soaking in all the beauty around me. :)
Thanks, yorkie - I loved the poem and thought it would be so easy to ‘find’ that scene the author was describing, but ended up having to add the pine trees and still didn’t get the mountains in it!
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