A full life


So this is the closing page of Fantasy.I printed Aunty Katies poem onto fabric and used part of the page.This is the poem text.

Fantasy K   M

I wandered along the pathway

Far from  my little grey house

Far from the things I loved

I wanted to roam.

I wanted to see what it felt like

To be by myself

With a land of Strange things around me

So I crept forward with stealth.

I left my garden of sunshine

Where my favourite flowers grew

The flowers I tended daily

And I wondered if they knew.

I wondered if I’d been dreaming

When I bade them farewell

For they all seemed to talk plainly

Though usually tis hard to tell.

They seem to say “we will miss you’

But we understand why you go

And I turned away for it must be me

I loved them all so.

I prayed to the dew & the sunshine,

To tend my garden well

And the snow and the frost to keep it from harm

When winter fell.

I trundled along the pathway

To my land of strange things

They sparkled in the sunshine,

And beckon me in.

I went because I’d no money,

And imagined myself awfully poor

I knew when I reached the city of wealth,

I’d want for money no more.

But through money came quiet easily

My wealth was diminishing fast

For I found when inside the city

The glitter did not last.

Though money past through my fingers,

Hundreds of pounds a day,

Yet my interest lie in my little rough spot,

A thousand miles away.

I dreamed of my garden of sunshine,

When asleep in my city of glare,

I fancied it all choked with weeds,

Because it was needing my care.

So I gave back my gold to the land of strange things.

And away from those pavements I hastened my steps.

Nor did I take note of the voice that called,

From the city of gaudy glitter.

I hastened my steps to my garden

Once more my flowers to tend.

And never again

For money or fame

Will I my small plot exchange

KM

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