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Gifts On May Day

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the gift of flower baskets Mother remembers giving to neighbors and nature's present to me swallows have returned this day

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Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 5/2/2024 4:05:00 PM

my mom made May baskets every year and delivered them to neighbors--well into her late 60s...a tradition her mother gave her and one she gave me. I cherished those times when I helped her make her baskets and deliver them. May and spring are such delightful gifts, aren't they? enjoy your evening, Sara

Chetta Achara
Date: 5/2/2024 6:01:00 PM

Happy this poem stirred happy memories for you. Those kind of memories are precious.

Hilda Greenhough

Date: 5/1/2024 8:20:00 PM

Nature is very generous. I'd live to see those swallow. Your poem is perky just like the start of May.

Chetta Achara
Date: 5/1/2024 9:18:00 PM

Thank you. I love it when the swallows return. It makes me feel like it really is Spring.

Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/1/2024 7:59:00 PM

Interesting... I had never heard of Mayday flowers, and well, here they are. I remember the Maypole Dance... In any event, Happy May Day, Chetta. :) gw

Chetta Achara
Date: 5/1/2024 8:07:00 PM

Yes. Mom, who is 89 now, remembers in school on May Day the students would go out and hang baskets of flowers on neighborhood doors. I also had to make a correction to this poem. I wrote sparrows when I meant swallows.