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VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-07-29 11:45 AM


(If "Hello, Moon" could be called sublime, then this is ridiculous, but still fun, I  hope.)

Mowin’ Rag
Virginia Salter

Gotta mow, gotta mow,
gotta mow, mow, mow
gotta cut them green blades down!

Gotta feed and water
all ‘round the yard
gotta pretty up my piece of town!

Wouldja like to come along with me
pushing, pulling to your heart’s content
keeping the green from brown?

We could have a ball
a real yard-care crawl
earning feathers for our crown.

Oh come along friend
it’s the livin’ end
dancin’ to the mowin’ rag

Up and down,
back and forth,
promise, won’t be a drag.

You and me
and the bumble bee
buzzing the creatures and weeds.

Then giving a drink
to the green and pink
as we water and gently feed.

© August 14.  2000

© Copyright 2001 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26
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Ontario, CANADA
1 posted 2001-07-29 11:47 AM



Well this is a creative look at a very mundane summertime chore.  Very cute and exuberant with great flow and rhyme~

Melissa~

VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
2 posted 2001-07-29 11:54 AM


yeah, I wrote this last year when I was trying to get myself away from the computer and out to the lawn, wanted company, don't you know, doing the mundane needs company, ah, me.

now I need to get away today to get my walk in before church

ShannonM
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since 2001-07-28
Posts 104
Drifitng
3 posted 2001-07-29 12:15 PM


I like this!  I once had a summer party, and the guys wanted to play football, but my back yard was a little overgrown...so they all broke out the lawnmower and took turns!  (Big back yard.)

ShannonM

SmittenKitten
Senior Member
since 2001-06-20
Posts 1131
where the sky and horizon meet
4 posted 2001-07-29 12:51 PM


Hehe, leave it to you to make the mundane fun!    I'd mow the lawn with you any day!
~Krista  

"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you.
And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
~Winnie the Pooh

VAS
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon
5 posted 2001-07-29 01:18 PM


Thanks Shannon for sharing such a wonderful even and Smitten...come on down!!!! I usually mow on Thursdays these days but am quite flexible.   If I get the job for which I'm interviewing tomorrow, then it will be Saturdays, probably.

Heh heh, wouldn't want you to miss out.

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