Idyllic
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7/24/2025, Three Options in 1 Contest, Constance La France
Sometimes, you leave and go back to your childhood home. It is like returning to Kansas from Oz. I never realized how beautiful it is, where I grew up. Both, "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" were written by Washington Irving. He wrote of the Catskills (-kills refers to water, like other places Peekskill and Kaaterskill). Rip Van Winkle fell asleep for 20 years and in the Sleepy Hollow story, there is a headless horseman lobbing off heads. Irving was a great storyteller.
Idyllic
Hudson Valley, New York …Lord of Rings’ shire.
A vineyard, filled with rich and famous names.
I’m pleased to be impressed by the artists,
as they surrender idyllic charm with paint.
Emerald green; delicious apple bites,
wind chimes through the pines, mountains of Catskill.
The headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow -
to drink, deep, the forests of Van Winkle.
Freedom fostered in cobblestone and -kills.
Small town parades, fireworks at Vanderbilt’s.
Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2025
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