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.
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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.
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I left my garden of sunshine
Where my favourite flowers grew
The flowers I tended daily
And I wondered if they knew.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I trundled along the pathway
To my land of strange things
They sparkled in the sunshine,
And beckon me in.
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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.
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But through money came quiet easily
My wealth was diminishing fast
For I found when inside the city
The glitter did not last.
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Though money past through my fingers,
Hundreds of pounds a day,
Yet my interest lie in my little rough spot,
A thousand miles away.
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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.
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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.
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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