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 to pray
There’d be no [...]
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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 aboard.
Boys pretending there are horses ahead,
calling commands [...]
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, Memories, Poetry, Rhyming, love, 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 gifts galore
They used paper money
Earned for chores done
And bought token gifts
To [...]
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
Then fall into a chair
While Papa changed the tempo
With [...]
A glimpse of Heaven
Posted in Family, Memories, Poetry, love, 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 a bit of Heaven today
When she wooed me with her charms…
The sweetest [...]
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