Storytime Tapestry Newsletter

The newsletter devoted to spreading love and cultural awareness around the world.

April 9, 2008

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and wait on thy God continually

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Poetry Corner

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I wrote a poem today and cried when I wrote it...I have to stop writing poems that make me cry.

Here it is; actually dad died before mother did and he did not give her an amulet but it rhymed.

He gave her a wedding band at the age of 17.  There was five years difference in their ages.  They eloped on the way to church...dad sold my grandfather a pig for five dollars to buy the wedding license..my grandfather never forgave my father.  Dad provided well for us and if he had lived until December of nineteen and ninety five they would have been married sixty years.  There was five years difference in their ages and five years difference in their deaths

Down By the Honey Tree

Janice Bumbalough Marler

There stood a tree along the brook,

Its limbs spread far and wide

It was the tree where two lovers met

At evening time;

Two whose hearts beat as one,

Pledged their love for all eternity

And prayed for guidance from above,

Down by the ‘honey’ tree

He had loved her from the first day they met,

She revered him;

As a token of his love,

He placed around her neck,

An antique amulet,

That had belonged to his grandmother,

He, on bended knee,

Pledged his love for all eternity,

And prayed for guidance from above,

Down by the ‘honey’ tree.

Their love abounded over the years

And they never forgot the ‘honey tree’,

The amulet lay, wrapped in tissue,

And when she passed away,

He placed it upon her neck;

They had pledged their love for eternity,

And had prayed for guidance from above,

Down by the ‘honey tree’.

Janice Bumbalough Marler

poetrybyjan@nc.rr.com

March 19, 2008

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 I Wish For You

 Janice Bumbalough Marler

I wish you blue birds on a summer day

I wish you rainbows after the rain,

I wish you happiness when life goes astray,

I wish you happiness instead of pain,

I wish you sunshine when clouds are gray,

I wish for you fragrant flowers that bloom in May

I wish for you beautiful relationships that never end,

I wish for you abundant joy that can be shared

 With a loved one or a friend

 But above all I wish for you love

That endures until the end of time.

Janice Bumbalough Marler

poetrybyjan@nc.rr.com

March 19, 2008

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Here is our Storytime Tapestry Angels: Also, I would like to thank those of you who chose to be a silent angel and gave an anonymous donation to keep Storytime Tapestry up and running.

Clara Westerfer, Mark Crider, Rosanne Catalano, Paula Booher, Kay Seefeldt, Mariane Holbrook, Mary Ellen Grisham, Louise Nomani, Sharon Bryant, Angela Walker, Hart and Helen Dowd, Keith Ready, Ginger Morgenstern, Ellie Braun-Haley, Surinder Jandu, Bob Shaw, Carol Meeks, Charlotte Hilliard, Marilyn Sink, Victor Buhagiar, Clarice Hinson, Conrad