[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

[ST.LOUIE1]

Good morning, dear ((((((((Sis))))))

I was getting worried about you. : (

Is everything ok with you?

[MeekOneGOP]

Mornin', everybody ! Happy Wednesday !

Have a cup while you Freep !

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Good Morning! That poem reminds me of my own love of flower gardening. With all the rain we have had everything is growing and blooming! (Maybe that is why Eyemb sick.)

Billie all the swirlys in your graphic look very art nouveau, I like it.

[JustAmy]

Thank you for this Garden Welcome Graphic. It is lovely!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for the beautiful poem!

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Gud morninguh. Not feelinguh to well today. Business is pickinguh up here, I well FReepuh whenuh I can...

[PreviouslyA-Lurker]

Good morniguh, Jen! Not feeliguh too well today. Hope you and Melissa are enjoying yourselves.

[Mama_Bear]

Hello to Amy and FRiends. I have been so busy trying to tie up all my "loose ends" before leaving on vacation that I have had no time to spend here. But, like Billie, I read the thread each day and enjoy everyone's contributions.
Flowers for Amy.
Thanks for all you do!

[Darksheare]

Morning.
Not much happening today, excewpt my dear little Klyben Cat is being.. well, her normal Klyben Cat self.

"Love to eat them mousies
Mousies what I love to eat
Bite they little heads off
Nibble they tiny feet"

-taken from a Klyben Cat coffee mug I own.
Graphic on it is a Klyben Cat sitting on a stool playing guitar.

[tuliptree76]

I downloaded the latest version of realplayer during my lunch break...and the music works now!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Evening friends, good to see you all.

JUMP ROPE

We found a rope my two friends and I.
Long enough to reach the sky.
From end to end two held it firm
And flipped it up and made it squirm.

The two on ends with grips of steel
Gave the rope a twirl, then a reel.
They flipped it up, then round and round
'Til bees were asking, "What's that sound?"

It looked amazing to see it twirl
My friends dared me, "Give it a whirl!"
So as it turned, I leapt inside
The whirling rope. Took it in stride!

The faster it spun, the faster it went.
The quicker it turned, the quicker it sent
The jumping, the skipping, the turning, the spinning
All merging in one 'til I started grinning.

Then giggles and laughter,
And silliness, thereafter,
Caused me to tumble,
Feet and rope in a-jumble.

We rolled on the ground. We rolled all around.
The joy that we had with the rope that we found
Was simple and fun, as fun as could be
With a rope that we found, my two friends and me.

-- Gerard J. Surprenant