tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22961618305131480842024-02-19T08:53:26.739-08:00Images of HomePoetry and photographs by Elece HollisElece Hollishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15286024086460827268noreply@blogger.comBlogger847125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2296161830513148084.post-72156288296781445842018-08-17T19:22:00.001-07:002018-08-17T19:37:00.585-07:00New Blog Site with Elece<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dear Friends and Followers,<br />
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I am changing the site of my blog to Wordpress and will still include<span style="font-size: large;"> Images of Home</span> at my new address, which is <a href="http://elecehollis.com/">elecehollis.com</a>. ( Click here to go right to the new blog front page.) Come join the fun there with poetry, prose, photography, letters, home, farm, and family.<br />
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Hear about my two new books coming out and soon available on Amazon. They are: <u>What's Good About Home</u> and <u>Life With Mama</u> and coming this November is another <u>Prayers for Teacher</u>s.<br />
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Thanks for following me.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why can't I be so brave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To greet the world </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Pale green of first leaves in springtime,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Green with envy, </span><span style="font-size: large;">green as grass?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Could it be the green of money,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or the rind of a lime or the juice between?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> A holly leaf or a coffee bean?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Is it the green of a iris stem,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Could it be an apple, pear, or string bean</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Or the gray-green of moss swaying in the breeze </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to the garden where warm breezes blow sweetly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where blessings are served up each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to the garden; take food for your soul</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Food much more filling than jelly on toast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come to the garden; come on go with me now;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having feasted on spring eye candy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Flowers everywhere––daffodils, peonies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With bright festival zinnias and daisies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having taken a stroll on the beach, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seen the seagulls wheeling in the bright sky,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having filled our tummies with fresh tomatoes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dazed by the heat and full up </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To smell them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer is Crepe Myrtle pushing pink lace and sweet perfume,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Corn ears––silk showing––waiting for eager hands to harvest,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Summer is sitting on the porch swing listening to hoot owls,</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Summer, summer, summer––it sweeps up </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfurl to the morning light and find</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To sip you good morning.</span></div>
<br />Elece Hollishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15286024086460827268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2296161830513148084.post-51629588391975868352017-07-08T21:32:00.000-07:002017-07-10T19:23:48.123-07:00Queen of Weeds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like cream in a pink china cup</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is a considerable beauty for a weed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wreathed in green and soft as silk</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ever think your time has passed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I'm old, but not extinct!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Though the frame is worn and paint has peeled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sky is reflected in the pane</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It manages still to keep out rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The whole is set in old red brick</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That solid wall is strong and thick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What a lovely wonderful shade is blue!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The prairie speaks in texture,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She speaks in ribs, in lines, in points</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She touches all who pass.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The prairie speaks in light somehow;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finds just the words to say,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I heard a mountain </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sun is hot on the meadow grass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cools the air while the sun still shines</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stars, the moon, and cloud design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How plain you are––how colorless. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do you know of show?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a bit of color</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They are lifeless and alone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Soar in the sky! Like a bird––Take wing!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We struggle and worry our goals to achieve,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of a single candle </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">flickering in a dark place? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">of a whispered </span><span style="font-size: large;">prayer </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>What man has written man may read; </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>But God fills every root and seed </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> But in notes of song,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drifting––riding on a warm breeze.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words like flute notes from a wooden pipe,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">High and bright and sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Words like rain falling softly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Like a shaft of golden sunshine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like honey and fruits,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like tree sap and honeysuckle tea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Words in code that speak always and ever</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The same line of poetry from the Maker's heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You are mine. </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The beauty and the wonder and the power, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The shape of things, their colors, lights and shades, </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Changes, surprises–– And God made it all!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for vases of daffodils on the windowsill.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for filling the hummingbird feeders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for sunny warmer days and thunder-stormy evenings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for treefrogs singing after rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for listening for the returning song of the scissortail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time for goldfinches bright yellow in the dandelion patches.</span></div>
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