Lovely AOJ over at the Lurchers wants us to describe in words and/or pictures our favourite walk.
So we had a lovely day planned today. We would visit Mr B’s mum, aka Grandma, and go on the lovely walk over the field to the park, then back home by the river.
But then the rain and the hail and the thunder thwarted our plans, so I decided to tell you about our fab day at Willowtree farm on Saturday which was a beautiful sunny day, but then I though, nahhhh, I’ll use words…
So,
The Walk…
Across the road from Grandma’s house,
About four houses down,
There lies a secret passageway
that leads into the brown
and grass bare field where football’s played
and big kids scrape their knees
And children ride their bikes and boards
and hang from friendly trees.
And when we’ve scaled the climbing frame
And shimmied down the pole
And dizzied round the round about
and clambered through the hole,
We head down to the river side
where vole and duckling mingle
and gather sticks and special stones
and tramp upon the shingle
And feel adrift from harder times
Apart from all our worries
Enamoured of the willow tree
and how the water flurries
at play between it’s trailing bows
as fish glide through the shallows,
then home again to Grandma’s house
to feast upon marshmallows.
Thanks for the inspiration AOJ, hope you managed to get an idea of our favourite walk from that. Now go and check out all the other Fun Monday participants. And have a wonderful day.
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April 28th, 2008 at 12:50 am
ooh nice one, Ms B! And yay to Willowtree farm – our first hamster came from there. It was an impulse buy. Tilly was five. She called him ‘Harry the Happy Horse’ …
April 28th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Oh that’s lovely Jo!
The weather was bit crappy yesterday wasn’t it!?
April 28th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Love the words you wrote!! Fantastic…
April 28th, 2008 at 7:50 am
OMGosh! I loved your littlee write up! Just beautiful!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:24 am
Very nice – sounds like a wonderful walk.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:32 am
nice poem!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Brilliant
April 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
I like how this place inspired you to write poetry. Sounds like a great place to walk!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:24 am
That’s a very nice poeme !!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:39 am
avisit to grams and the park how nice.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:43 am
That’s brilliant you have away with words~ I love your poem and a fun walk for children of all ages!
April 28th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I love reading (and writing poetry) … and yours was perfect today … filled with vivid description allowing us to visualize your walk to Grandma’s. Well done! Mine’s at Small Reflections this morning.
Hugs and blessings,
April 28th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Beauteous!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:12 am
That was a beautiful poem and a beautiful memory Jo. x
April 28th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I want to go!!
April 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
i LOVE LOVE LOVE that poem! i hope one day i can have a copy of ‘the collected works of jo beaufoix’. that will be awesome.
i heart you for your use of enamored OF. bob bless you.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
That was an excellent poem, Jo, and I think it would fit well into any children’s book of poetry.
April 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
love this! you do have a way with words, my dear…
April 28th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
what a wonderful poem Jo..I love it, so sorry the weather did not cooperate for you today!
No, I am not fit yet…but working on it!!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
That was just beautiful! Such wonderful memories.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Sounds like just the walk for a little one–especially if you end up at grandmother’s and get to eat marshmallows!
April 29th, 2008 at 4:53 am
What a wonderful poem! Thank you for sharing.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:30 am
How wonderful is that? Your poem makes me fall apart inside…that’s a good thing.
April 30th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I am impressed!!!