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This story is based on the nursery rhyme called, "There Was an Old Woman Who Lived Under a Hill." Picture by ractapopulous, at Pixabay
The Place Most Loved
Ada Scott was a widowed old woman, living in rolling hills country;
In jade, flowering days of full sun, when ecstatic bees made honey.
She lived in the same cottage she was born, quite a long time ago;
On a night of amaranth starlight, when moon peered into windows.
She was well known and loved in the neighborhood, like red robin;
And participated in church activities, like caring deeds, unforgotten.
Ada and friends went to Friday fairs, and offered fresh pies for sale;
And tempting cakes and muffins, and often, fancy cookies in a pail.
Fresh day and lulling night had frequent faceoffs, in an ageless feud,
When came a time for loved family visits; like a smiling, happy mood!
Ada Scott lived in the house of memories, so happily going forward;
Like portraits of dear faces and pretty colors, as sun gazes backward.
Radiant smiles were always ready, on the road of neighbors meeting,
Reliable in the way of oldest friends; as when the rainbow is greeting.
Neighbors sat on porches, laughing, on evenings of nervous comets;
When night nature wore a different beauty, in pink starlight promise.
'Curly mums' were featured in gardens, in burgundy, pink and white;
'Lovely ladies' styled, perfumed hair, waltzing with wind, in daylight.
Astilbe visions foresaw hot summer's end, one sad day in a future far,
From its diamond eyed perspective; like lavish beauty of fall, bizarre.
Strangers often asked the way to Ada's cottage, as she loved to knit
And often sold the pretty, useful products, like a rocking chair habit.
Folks of other towns were patrons, since for Ada, quality was custom.
People will go far for the lovely unique, as each soul must have some!
'There was an old woman
Lived under a hill;
And if she's not gone,
She lives there still.'
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