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Big Brother & Billy Goat

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  Big Brother Tell His Tale Big Brother’s Big Adventure ♪ ♥ ♪ Sitting beneath a singing tree brother told us of the climb he took one adventurous sunny summer day it seemed to be his own story book It wasn’t something he’d been told for in his joyful sparkling eyes He may have embellished his tale imagination yes, but he told no lies He began the tale of course with “Once upon a Time” and began to tells us all about his mysterious mountain climb He felt that he’d become a Billy goat with a coat of crimson white and black bouncing from rock to rock he jumped his hooves sang out a clickety clack They were sharp as a silver knives sure hoofs were strong indeed he brayed out loud a goat baa cry no rocks or cliffs would impede Up he went stopping now and then for lovely sights he saw around sharp cliffs and lovely meadows sweet clover bloom in the ground He stopped indeed sometimes to dance a jiggly step or two gracefully filled with soulf...
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  A few years back  I did this for a new king  elected by the madness of the crowds that pray and want $$$$ w/o sense A holy race their game and now I get to post it to celebrate its new lordly day  (“Lethal Murmuration” 2015 Paper cut on canvas jmf-w)
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  Alma, Nourishing Soul ♥ I began reading Lawrence Durrell’s memories of his life on Corfu before WWII Fascists crucified Europe His first full day there unfolded on the rocky, spring green day the savory smell of olive tree salt air the day was 27 April in 1937 My mind flew from the Aegean Sea to Choptank/Chesapeake Bay shores 7800 miles to a lovely farm in flat greening Goldsboro, Maryland Alma, my sister born to spend Her first full day A crazy connection maybe the enchantment a present a decade before my birth that month the beauty of that enchanted Grecian Isle as lovely to me as her birth the first for Frederick and Maud for Alma, big sister nourished us four younger ones with waters sweet as milk and treats jolly as green olives Such a sweet life she gave to all who touched her heart the loving white hound an angel guides her spirit heavenward to always answer our prayers ♥ With thankful love, ...