Poem Waiting

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Miss Fancy Mouse Visits the House

Illustration by:  Phoebe Erickson 1947

Ms.Fancy Mouse visits the House

I'm so glad you've come to tea

with your fire-red boa and purple plume hat,

no one could mistake this Miss Mouse,

for a lowly common rat.

I'm so glad you've come to tea--

you dress up the place you see,

with your green leather purse,

and your visits to the nurse.

You say your health has gotten worse?

Oh dear, I hope it not infectious!

Sit, you'll find the soup delicious.

I'm so glad you've come to tea.

How on earth did you catch it?

You sat beneath a toadstool and were bitten by a flea!

A tragic story, I see why it is you cry.

Let's sip our tea and dwell on matters happy by and by.

Prompt from Monday's Child. Thank you!

Counting by Twos

Two oak trees with their leaves turning brown

Four sugar maple leaves, red and gold on the ground

Six sparrows dashing in the privet to hide

Eight laughing children in line for the slide

Ten geese wait by the shore at the park

Twelve streetlights line the street after dark

Fourteen sweet and cold apples in a bowl

Sixteen lumpy holes in the lawn from a mole

Eighteen tulip bulbs wait in their winter bed

Twenty pages left til I rest my weary head. 

Image in the public domain from wikimedia Commons  : Views of Kyoto - 10. Merrymaking beneath Maple Trees at Tsuten Kyo      by Hiroshige Utagawa