Rabbit

When my siblings and I were young
our father would not let us play
with kids he didn’t know

There were three of us girls
and one rotten boy
playing together was usually quite fun

We made up our own games
built forts of pine straw
found crawdads in creek beds
and then let them go

Some games were right dangerous
thinking back on those days
where was our Mother?

Good grief I can’t say!

Our favorite included
a black pellet gun
Oldest sister would aim it and say

RUN RABBIT RUN

We ran through the brambles
round bushes and trees
if we could find one
through fences we’d squeeze

Her aim was right deadly
from practice I guess
she aimed for our buttocks
and never our heads

this picture was taken in 1969, that's me on the left, oldest sister next to me, you can probably pick out the rotten brother and baby sister
Even with sore buttocks we still love each other very very much!

We all made it to adulthood in one piece, by God's Good Grace I'm sure.
Now I'm off to help set up tables at church,
The Baptist women are hosting a brunch Saturday, I'm looking forward to it.
If there's one thing I can tell you for sure about Southern Baptist women
it's they know how to cook!

Have a Great Evening

ILYM

Carpet

carpets of winter
blankets of snow

carpets of spring
wild violets grow

carpets of summer
sunflowers glow

carpets of autumn
bright leaves steal the show

I spent more time looking for the photographs than studying the form -
and as behind as I am in NPM I should quit reading every ones poems,
lest I turn into a copy cat  - but that's not happening either

This carpet poem may be a couplet

but doggone if I know for sure!

Happy Earth Day

I'm off to plant rosemary bushes

because all seven of mine died over the winter  =(((

ilym

p.s....

I woke up at 4:15am this morning to check out the meteors, there was one patch of clear sky around the moon, I watched  unsuccessfully until the cloud cover overtook us...then went back to bed.  I see a little blue sky out right now so maybe tonights the night!

Covered Bridges

There are fifteen Covered Bridges
in the state that I call home
One King and Three Queen Post
Eleven are Town Latticed

Piles driven in stream beds
connect them with beams
Cover the rafters
they'll last quite awhile

Looking quite barnish
fooled horses will go
cross troubled water
steal a kiss and go home

The Euharlee Covered Bridge, a wooden Town Lattaced bridge crossing Euharlee Creek in Euharlee, Georgia. The bridge was built after the raging creek swept away an old bridge on the property of Daniel Lowry. The collapse of the bridge killed one man. A new bridge was built in 1886 by Horace King's son Washington King and Johnathan H. Burke, it spans 138 feet. The lattice trusses consist of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles and are fastened with wooden pegs, or trunnels, at each intersection.  Vehicle traffic finally stopped across the bridge in 1980 when a new two-lane bridge was built.  The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open to foot traffic seven days a week.  It's the closest Covered Bridge to our home, they have a great BBQ festival there each year in June.

EARTH DAY AND THE LYRIDS ARE COMING!!! 

The 2014 Lyrid meteor shower will pepper  the night on the evening of April 21 until before dawn April 22. The predawn hours are typically best – and  April 22, Earth Day morning, is the peak this year. You might also want to try the evening hours this year though, because the light of the last quarter moon, rising at midnight may interfere.

Clouded out tonight? Or too much moonlight for your taste? You might see some Lyrid meteors on the night of April 22-23, too, especially since a thinner waning moon will be rising later on the morning of April 23, leaving more darkness for meteor watching.

Tonight will be my best chance, I think seeing a single meteor shooting across a moonlit sky is miraculous, so keep looking up, and if your up in the wee hours before dawn you can see Venus, turned Morning Star on the eastern horizon and Mars and Saturn on the western edge.

Thanks EarthSky News!

have a heavenly evening!

ILYM

Celestial Jerusalem

Seven Stars
Seven Spirits
Seven bowls with seven plagues

Twelve jeweled foundations
Twelve Apostles
Twelve Pearly Gates

Flowing east a river
clean and clear like a crystal
bearing life to our souls and a sea once thought barren

no death, no tears, no fear and no sorrow
no sun and no moon
the lambs light we will follow

Cast off your baggage
pure hearts will come in
The Celestial City
God’s Grace You will Win

I'm not doing very well writing a poem a day for the National Poetry month, when it came to Celestial Jerusalem, ashamedly ( as I told DanishDoll), I had to google  to get a true understanding, to my dismay the information that came up was from Revelations. I've not read very much in Revelations for the same reason I don’t watch scary movies…anyway I got over my scaredy self and started reading…I want to live in the New Jerusalem…and Revelations ain't that scary (yet =)  I may even watch Cape Fear or something Hitchcock...or maybe not.

In other news:

Braylon is doing very well! He and our Granddaughter Jacklyn went to Ft. Benning, Georgia for our Grandson Reeces Turning Blue Ceremony.

Barry and I plan to go to the Graduation Ceremony in the morning, after graduation the kids will come home for 10 days, they'll pack their belongings and head to Ft. Carson, Colorado.  We are So Proud of them!

Nash is proving to be a Great Big Brother, Nova Rae makes that easy.

Our Granddaughter Mara has one week of finals left...then she'll be finished with her freshman year at West Georgia,  she's done very well, she's a a science major...We're really proud of her too!

that's her in the middle of her sorority sisters, I think their Tri-Deltas, they do good work for St. Judes Childrens Foundation

Our roof still isn't finished, but it's a lot closer than it was...I think they'll be done in a another 3 days...or so =/

that is if the rain will hold off for awhile...

We've had a lot of rain...

  the dogs love

"When streams are ripe and swelled with rain"

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend and a joyous Easter

ilym

Just a quick note to say thank you for the prayers and good thoughts for Braylon.

He gained 3 ounces yesterday and pooped !  I don't remember ever being excited about baby poop but we sure are!

all the test for yucky stuff were negative

He's got new calorie enhanced vitamin enriched formula and

He's going home today!

YAY!!!

Many Thanks

ILYM

the moon coming up
the sun going down
the stars coming out
the world going round

each day is a miracle
our blessings abound

Our precious great grandson Braylon is in the hospital.  He was born 8 weeks early, 3lbs and 11 ounces.  He's not keeping his formula down very well  and has only gained an ounce in the last 4 weeks, the doctors are running test to see what might be going on.  I'm off to check on him.   Prayers and thoughts positive are welcome.

Braylon 3 weeks ago.

ilym

I have a hard time
writing poems that don't rhyme
if they don't
aren't they really just stories?

They are not say the books
there is meter and verse
to count them you must be a genius!

You do it with ease
you've practiced you've pleased
and that's why I call you
extraordinary

I didn't have much time again today...it was an extraordinary day though...I had my first hummingbird visit.
I put my feeders out as soon as the honeysuckle starts budding out, which was yesterday.  I saw three, probably the same one at different times but boy was I excited!

Tomorrow I have a VBS workshop... surely I will be inspired by some tiny miracle...if not I'll go through the photo's of the kids and grands....see you soon

ilym

I believe

I believe in fairy tales
nightingales and
eating kale

I believe in dandelions
puppy breath and
negative Ions

I believe in pennies heads up
grab em all
you'll have good luck

I believe in being straight
tell the truth
don't be late

I believe in the moon and stars
making wishes
good cigars

I believe that Mountain Tops
are magic places
full of love
and Gods good graces

four leaf clovers
counting crows
one for sorrows
two for joys

I'll just say this is free form again, it's a busy time for me at work, however I sure am enjoying the poetry, I could spend more time studying the different poetry forms but then I wouldn't have time to read all the lovely works of art.  Speaking of Mountain Tops...below is one of my favorite mountains.

Brasstown Bald is the highest natural point in the state of Georgia, USA, with a summit elevation of 4,784 feet above mean sea level. The mountain is known to the native Cherokee people as Enotah.

 I do believe this is a magical place.

ilym

My home town is very small
less than a grand of us
I know them all

A grocery, a bank
two pharmacies and
three places where you can fill up your tank

four places to eat
several antiques
a grammar school that is pretty darn neat

but the park is the best
for fun or for rest
a cave and a spring we surely are blessed

Nash and Nova in the park yesterday
eating Ice Cream...it was such a lovely day!

I didn't have much time to study the types of poetry today, but I think this may be Free Verse:

A Free Verse Poem does not follow any rules. Their creation is completely in the hands of the author. Rhyming, syllable count, punctuation, number of lines, number of stanzas, and line formation can be done however the author wants in order to convey the idea. There is no right or wrong way to create a Free Verse poem.

whew

now I'm off to ride the church bus and pick up  little children
Jesus  loves them all and so do I
but I'd like to snatch the heads off
some of the grown-ups
but I won't

ILYM

April is National Poetry Month and our very own murisopsis has challenged us to write a poem each day of the month.  She also gave us prompts to follow and said it would be easy.....

the first prompt is "Simple" so I googled simple poetry and found a wealth of information, of course it came from 3rd graders and that's about my speed.  I chose to write Acrostic Poetry today.  Acrostic poetry uses the letters of the title of the poem to create the poem. This is a free form poem and has as many lines as the title has letters.

This will be a good learning experience...Thanks Val.

SIMPLE

Six geese play

in the creek behind the house

minding their goslings

palamates they are, they have simple webbed feet

Labradors  chase them until I say

ENOUGH

I know there are more than six geese here

but eight geese simply didn't fit the format...

this is the creek behind  our house

and last springs goslings turned into geese

(ha - that kinda sounded like a poem too

maybe I'm a poet and don't know it

Have A Great First Day of April

ILYM