Birthday celebration!

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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Moment to remember

FEELING THE MOMENT In darkness of a cobalt sky, the breezes sigh and tease my hair, while in the air the lilacs fling their sweetest scent . . . a night’s accent, as insects croon to earth’s full moon, and lightening bugs morse code the night with blinking light; I feel these things this moment [...]

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As the earth awakens

SPRING FANTASY The earth is ready for her Prom. Awakened from her rest, With a field full of flowers As a corsage on her breast. There’s romance blooming in that field, And flirting’s taking place . . . Sweet William’s charmed by countless winks From Black-eyed Susan’s face. 7/29/05 Phyllis DeWitt-VanVleck

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A rainy day

   RAIN – SETTING MY MOODS   Coming down in sheets, it resembles a silver lame theater curtain. A gift of nature’s beauty. Preceding summer hail, it portends worse to come, as we await the yellowing of the sky. But sometimes it dances on my window panes, and makes its own melody on the tin [...]

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A Haiku for winter

                      HAIKU                         Season’s cover-up                              new white blankets fell last night                                   earth sleeps in cold robes     9/2/06                    Phyllis DeWitt

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A Haiku for the light snows we are getting.

                 HAIKU     Muted earth colors        wearing frosty ermine robes             after a snowfall     3/18/90          Phyllis VanVleck

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