Fruits and Berries (the girl from Mayberry)

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Open Poetry #39

Fruits and Berries (the girl from Mayberry)

poettothecars
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since 2006-02-10

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0 posted 2006-09-28 08:35 AM

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Fruits and Berries
14 July 2005

To the girl from Mayberry
who gives others hope
Her kindness in gentle touch
to gather in the sheaves and elope

A runaway child
—left alone
Her heartbeat felt
on mercy to atone

This Wednesday’s sibling
as to any day of the week
Given from heaven
in a smile from cheek to cheek

Her happiness a hug
her gentleness a kiss
And to her heart goes
words like this

Mayberry - better known as the rural southern town on the US television sitcom THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW/CBS/1960-68. Located somewhere in the eastern portion of North Carolina near the Virginia border, with a population of 5260, Mayberry was the home of Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), his Aunt Bee Taylor (Frances Bavier) and his small son, Opie (Ronny Howard). Assisting Andy was his well-meaning but bumbling cousin, Deputy Barney Fife (Don Knotts).

The towns other of citizens included Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), a gas pumper and mechanic at Wally's Filling Station; Helen Crump (Aneta Corsaut), Opie's elementary school teacher and Andy's future wife; Floyd Lawson (Howard McNear), the town's only barber; Otis Campbell (Hal Smith), an alcoholic who often slept off his drunken stupors at the Mayberry jailhouse; Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), the County Clerk; Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman), the town's fix-it man; Thelma Lou (Betty Lynn), Barney's longtime girlfriend; and Clara Edwards (Hope Summers), the town's gossip and friend of Aunt Bee's. When Barney left Mayberry, Warren Ferguson (Jack Burns) took over as deputy.

© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

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Kira Aso
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since 2006-09-26

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1 posted 2006-09-28 08:46 AM

I enjoyed this very much! It reminds me of someone I know. Lovley.

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