Plainly Beautiful

Plainly Beautiful

By Elece

How plain you are––how colorless. 

What do you know of show?

I have a bit of color

Most will never know.

I've never seen you blooming;

I don't believe you do!

I don't bloom just exactly 

As God meant you to do.

Some folks just don't have color

They are lifeless and alone.

It's just that I bloom quietly

Home and in my zone.

Some are gifted with a special

Way of blooming few will see.

It makes them all more wonderful

For the their unique rarity.

Swimmin'

Swimmin'

Oh! the old swimmin'- hole! whare the creek so still and deep

 Looked like a baby-river that is laying half asleep,

From The Old Swimming-Hole by James Whitcomb Riley

Otter be Fun

Summer is for swimming in 

Your little green pool–– splashing, 

Splashing in the shade and the cool.

Summer is an otter's dream,

In the moonlight at the midnight

Among the rocks she splashes

Where little fishes try to sleep,

She splashes and and she splashes.

Otters at swimming school!