REMEMBERING HIS DAY Granddaughter baked a cake last night And topped it today with candlelight Then asked the children to come near She had a story for them to hear A story about a Holy birth When God sent His Son to earth This is our Savior’s special day She said, as they bowed heads [...]
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Birthday celebration!
Posted in Family, Inspirational, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged birth, birthday, cake, candle, children, Christmas, earth, gift, God, Granddaughter, Jesus, praises, Savior, son on Friday,December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Under a Mulberry Tree
Posted in Memories, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged backboard, bed, children, farmer's wagon, horses, Market, mulberry tree, wheels on Sunday,July 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A RELIC OF THE PAST Here I sit, under a mulberry tree, tongue hanging in the dust, after that pull uphill. That was my last farm pull, and now I’ll sit here as a relic for city folk to ogle , and say, “How quaint”. I like sitting here, mulberries covering my floor. Children clamoring [...]
Spinning Tales
Posted in Memories, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged children, shack, Story Lady, tales on Sunday,March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE STORY LADY At the Story Lady’s old shack, the children gathered near, for what they wished to hear. She embellished tales with such knack, they’d lose themselves within each tail that she would spin, and it kept them all, coming back. This poetry form is called “Neville” 9/5/91 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck
True story of the Holiday – 1999
Posted in Animals, Children, Family, Holiday, love, Memories, Poetry, Rhyming, tagged brisket, children, Christmas store, Jacob, Sherry, SKeeter, St. Clair, Wyoming on Saturday,December 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
FAMILY EVENT 1999 This is a year we included a Hanukkah celebration, so my great grandchildren could learn about other beliefs. The house was decorated Upstairs and down The kids all shopped here Instead of downtown We had bought things on sale And made a small store The children enjoyed it And bought [...]
My dad played the Fiddle
Posted in Children, Family, Geneology, Memories, Music, Poetry, tagged acoustics, angles, cadence, children, concert, dance, feet, fiddle, floor, heart, heel, hoedown, melody, mom, Music, Papa, resin, rhyme, rhyming, sing, stinrgs, tempo, toe, tune, violin, Waltz, words on Friday,October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PAPA’S VIOLIN When Papa played the violin Mom rolled the rug away We children smiled because she knew We’d rather dance than play As Papa raised the tempo Our feet kept cadenced time Mama often sang along With words in perfect rhyme We’d dance until the music stopped [...]
A glimpse of Heaven
Posted in Family, love, Memories, Poetry, tagged children, flowers, heart, Heaven on Sunday,September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BITS OF HEAVEN I caught a glimpse of Heaven today When a little child of three Danced around my flower beds With a look of blissful glee I heard a bit of Heaven today When she giggled while at play Sounds I’ll carry in my heart Forever and a day I felt [...]
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