Stepping Stones to Success
...“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping stones.” Enid Blyton
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Categories:
enid, inspirational, life, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Magnificent, Magnolious Saucer Magnolias
...Twenty years ago this month I was in Enid A. Haupt Garden, a manicured
garden surrounded by two rows of saucer magnolia trees. The magnolious
large, cup shaped flowers showcasing breathtaking displ...
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Categories:
enid, flower,
Form: Free verse
Adapting the Craft
...Adapting the Craft
My father looked up Zealot Street
toward the mountain where ore
buckets hung to cart the coal.
“Don’t go near the mine” he repeat-
ed, the chant of elders who...
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Categories:
enid, father son, son,
Form: Rhyme
Gratification In Books
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A good book gives great gratification,
Be it a mystery, a thriller or romance,
I love them all,
And when it's Christian fiction,
I love them even more,
From Francena Arnold to Kar...
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Categories:
enid, books,
Form: Free verse
Books As Friends
...Did you see your books as friends?
Did Enid Blyton ever end?
In the Famous Five, we did believe,
Faraway Tree, dreams to perceive,
Could not wait for new edition,
Enid the friend, our tradition....
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Categories:
enid, appreciation, best friend, books,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Walk
...After the carols and the pageant
of the birth, we walk through the night
of Lexington to Suzanne and Fran’s.
The streets are darker since a giant
oak gave up the ghost and downed the li...
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Categories:
enid, christmas, friendship, prayer,
Form: Lyric
Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn Leaves
...Scurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.
a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying of trees~
lone leaf on my shoe
I am not sure ex...
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Categories:
enid, absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form: Haibun
33 and Beautiful
...I was strolling through the rich coast on a Sunday evening,
No doubt, I had glanced at beautiful Enid,
I have to accede; your face, all, of you, is incredible, pristine and attractive.
Through the...
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Categories:
enid, age, appreciation, dedication,
Form: Name
Tubby Th Bear
...- Inspired by ‘Tubby Makes a Mistake‘ by Enid Blyton in ‘The Cuckoo in the Clock and other stories.’
When night falls,
toys come out to play
While we slumber and snore
the night away.
Now so...
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Categories:
enid, childhood,
Form: Light Verse
Miss Jekyll Or Miss Hyde
...Most people who meet her, consider her charming
But she has ghoulish traits, they’d find quite alarming
With her gleaming blonde tresses and sparkling blue eyes
Her cherubic features are just a di...
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Categories:
enid, daughter
Form: Rhyme
Encounter At Winn Dixie
...Two of us on a bench
outside the store
I'm waiting
for a bus;
Enid's waiting
while her husband shops.
Forty years between us
Sharing butter cookies
because we both skipped breakfast
Enid lig...
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Categories:
enid, life, people, uplifting, husband,
Form: I do not know?