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Friday, 25 November 2016

Bertha's Brook, by Andrea MacDonald


Do you know of Bertha’s Brook ?
It’s a place where children play
People talk and walkers walk,
 And on the bridge there couples court at the closing of the day.

Daytime finds it splashed in with toys
Boats and twigs and skimming stones
Squelchy wellies home by sundown
To dry by the fire with soggy clothes

Evening finds a courting couple
Happy to be hand in hand
Feelings express the waters babble
Life moves on as change demands…
A nestling nook
On tapestried hills
For casting ills
Across the fields
And feel the freedom that it yields
 Stiperstones Squilver Snailbeach
said softly
 for the soul who’s seeking solace
You’ll find it there
And that’s a promise.

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