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  • Natasha Anne Kelleher

STONY TREE COTTAGE A CHANCE TO BE INSIGHTFUL

Updated: Apr 12, 2022

ONCE UPON OUR LIFE TIME

IN A QUIET CURVING LANE

IN SLEEPY CANONBURY'S CHIME

THERE IS A TINY HOME RANGE

MADE OF WOOD AND GRAIN

SOUNDING AS DELIGHTFUL

AS A CLEVER RHYMING TRAIN

STONY TREE COTTAGE SO PRETTY AND VITAL

WHEREIN LIES THE CHANCE TO BE INSIGHTFUL

FOR IT IS WHERE FAIRIES AND GOBLINS CLIMB AND HIDE


WHEN NO-ONE IS LOOKING

WITH FIERCE CURIOSITY TO DISCOVER

YOU CAN LIGHTLY TAP SO CAREFULLY PUSHING

ON THE TINY BRIGHTLY PAINTED DOOR COVER

IN THE HOPE IT WILL OPEN BEFORE YOU

THEN SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARILY

MAGICAL WILL FROM INSIDE APPEAR ANEW

HALF EXPECTED YET HOPED SO FERVENTLY

A TINY HAND WELCOMES YOU TO ENTER

YOU CAN HARDLY BELIEVE HOW ARTFULLY

THIS MYSTERY DRAWS YOU NEAR TO ITS CENTRE


AS YOU ARE A GOOD CHILD

YOU ARE INVITED IN FOR CAKE AND TEA

SUDDENLY WITHOUT KNOWING YOU ARE BEGUILED

YOU ARE TINY LIKE ALICE WONDERLAND SMALL AND TWEE

YET DOWN THE SWIRLING RABBIT HOLE

WHERE LOTS OF MAGIC STARTS TO UNFOLD

CLEVERLY UNLOCKED TAPPED AND TOLD

FROM THE HEART OF THIS VERY SPECIAL ABODE


SO KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED WIDE

FOR IF MAGIC STRIKES YOU WILL SEE

FAIRIES SPARKLING DANCING THEN FLY

DARTING TO AND FRO LIKE HONEY BEES

STARDROPS AND STARLIGHTS BURSTING ACROSS

THEIR BRIGHTLY COLOURED HAIR

SHOWING YOU THAT LIFE IF CHILDHOOD LOST

THROUGH GLARING SCREENS IN WHICH YOU STARE

RATHER SHOULD BE PLAYED THROUGH OUTDOORS

DISCOVERING NATURE WITHOUT WORRY OR CARE

IT IS THE BEST GIFT FOR ANY CHILD WHERE IMAGINATION SOARS

SO MAKE SURE YOUR YOUNG DAYS ARE SPENT IN NATURE'S LAIR


SUDDENLY YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH GREEN MOSS AND GRASS

IN SUNDRIPPED CURVING HEDGEROWED LANES

TILL YOU SEE A CASTLE MADE OF SHIMMERING GOLDEN GLASS

WELCOMING YOU WITH OPEN SILKEN ARMS

WHERE UPON INSIDE YOU WILL HEAR

ANGELS SINGING AND VIOLINS PLAYING PSALMS

YOU CAN SPEND TIME IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMEONE SO DEAR

A PERSON YOU CAN HEAR BUT NOT SEE YET THE MESSAGE SO CALM

ITS IS THE WISDOM FATHER YOU'VE BEEN LONGING TO RETURN AND REVERE

BEFORE YOU WERE BORN AND YOUR EYES UNABLE TO SEE HEAVEN'S BALM

THEN WHEN YOU HAVE LEARNED YOUR LESSONS QUICKLY AND CLEAR

THROUGH WISDOM'S GENTLE ALL SEEING MIND YOU FIND

THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER TO BE SINCERE TO EVERYONE

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY TO ALWAYS BE A GIVING HEART DEVINED


IT IS KINDNESS AND SINCERITY THAT WILL NUTURE YOUR SOUL

THROUGHOUT YOUR SPIRIT ADVENTURE TO PASS THEN YOUR WISDOM

TO YOUR OWN CHILDREN THEN THEIR CHILDREN IT IS THEIR ROLE

TO EACH MAKE THE BEST OF THEIR LIVES FULL OF OPTIMISM

HELPING AND NURTURING THE PLANET IN EVERY POSSIBLE HUMANE WAY

AND TO INFLUENCE MANKIND TO STOP THE NEVER ENDING

CIRCLE OF MINDLESS DECLINE ENSURING FOREVER IT'S OUT OF PLAY


COPYRIGHT NATASHA ANNE KELLEHER OCTOBER 2018

PHOTOGRAPH COPYRIGHT NATASHA ANNE KELLEHER OCTOBER 2018



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