[JustAmy]

Poetry and Potpourri made its debut on September 22, 2003

Click on our Club Car for prior threads.

To be added to or removed from the Amy's Place ping list, please notify me via FReepMail.

[JustAmy]

6-16-04
Graphic by Billie

A Garden Song

HERE in this sequestered close
Bloom the hyacinth and rose,
Here beside the modest stock
Flaunts the flaring hollyhock;
Here,without a pang, one sees
Ranks, conditions, and degrees.

All the seasons run their race
In this quiet resting place,
Peach and apricot and fig
Here will ripen and grow big;
Here is store and overplus,--
More had not Alcinoüs!

Here, in alleys cool and green,
Far ahead the thrush is seen;
Here along the southern wall
Keeps the bee his festival;
All is quiet else--afar
Sounds of toil and turmoil are.

Here be shadows large and long;
Here be spaces meet for song;
Grant, O garden-god, that I,
Now that none profane is nigh,--
Now that mood and moment please,--
Find the fair Pierides!

Austin Dobson

[visualops]

I’m the one called "Doc"


I shall not walk in your footsteps,
but I will walk by your side.
I shall not walk in your image,
I’ve earned my own title of pride.

We’ve answered the call together,
on sea and foreign land.
When the cry for help was given,
I’ve been there right at hand.

Whether I am on the ocean
or in the jungle wearing greens,
Giving aid to my fellow man,
be it Sailors or Marines.

So the next time you see a corpsman
and you think of calling him "squid",
think of the job he’s doing
as those before him did.

And if you ever have to go out there
and your life is on the block,
Look at the one right next to you...
I’m the one called "Doc".


Harry D. Penny, Jr. HMC(AC)USN

Copyright 1975

Permission to Use, Granted by Author

[Jen]

Hey! What are Killian and Sasso doing in the club car? I thought they were hiding underneath some furniture here in my living room! Those rascals! Are they giving you any trouble, Amy, or doing their job of keeping rats and cootiebugs away? ;-)