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Tramp Poet
Senior Member

since 2000-01-06

Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

0 posted 2001-04-22 11:03 AM

It’s Springtime!

Mama has an antique wheelbarrow
chained down just below our sippin porch
cast iron, rusted out, big ole steel wheel.
she has turned it into a metropolitan flowerbed
sowing handfuls of unknown, mystery seed.

Sunday morn, sippin coffee on the porch
the flowers all dancing in the Oklahoma breeze.
Bachelor buttons are the second highest
thin thistle-like cone tops whacking each other.
Shasta daisies are the skyscrapers of the crowd.

A foot or more high the daisies dance
while pure white petals flip and fold
doing a two-step ‘round big, yellow centers.
Swaying with abandon, petals flying
daisy dance is quite a sight!

Mama slips off the porch for a minute
she’s checkin her wall of roses.
Squeals with delight, “The buds are opening!”
We’ll have a wall of smell good before long
as the roses bloom in all their glory.

She has been a busy one this spring
a plantin and a fussin all over the place.
She’s even got veggies growing up on a table
taking this raised bed thing to new levels!
Yep,Mama has definitely got it going on this year!

the artist once upon...
known as "bleeding"

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-04-22 12:17 PM

Oh, I like this. Mama will have to be active to keep up with everything she has growing in this fast moviing spring. No time for sitting on the "sippin" porch. Joyce

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2001-04-22 02:46 PM

This is delightful to read. I could picture those daisies dancing!

Betty Lou Hebert

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2001-04-22 09:59 PM

I guess it's time I got my tomato plants started!

ccwryter
Junior Member

since 2001-04-22

Posts 16
TX USA

4 posted 2001-04-23 11:55 PM

A lot of very good imagry in this... Yore Mama shore enuf has it together.
I really like this one.
Mike

twinsgd
Member

since 2000-02-13

Posts 416
Ontario,Canada

5 posted 2001-04-24 11:35 PM

This is fun...may i join you for a coffee in Oklahoma...too cold here yet the plants will freeze.....coffee on the porch wearing a windbreaker s'ok tho'.

jack

Moon Dust

Member Elite

since 1999-06-11

Posts 2177
Skelmersdale, UK

6 posted 2001-04-25 08:02 PM

Sounds lovely

Don't ever give in, if you do you've lost everything you've ever had and everything you hope to gain, but if you carry on your already winning.

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