The Crystal

 

                                      Brenda Bryant (Rinkly Rimes)

 

QUOTOGRAPHY

http://www.myperspectiveblog.com/2011/03/quotography.html

requests photographs and quotes on the topic 'Photography'

I threw in some verses for good measure.

 

THE CRYSTAL

 

Quote: A photograph is the pause button of life. - Ty Holland

 

A photograph can capture Time

And make it last for ever;

Making a link in the chain of life

That passing years can't sever.

It pauses life for an instant,

And captures ones emotion;

The smell, the feel, the memory

Of a ship sailing the ocean.

The sun goes down a billion times,

As year gives way to year,

But only this sun, this eventide

Is preserved for ever here.

'The pause-button of life', they say,

A blessed preservation,

A hint of immmortality,

And crystalised creation.

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WINTER WARMER

( It's Winter in Australia so it's apt!)

In England in the days of old

When nights were very chilly

They simply shivered in the cold

And that was rather silly.

So someone had a great idea

Which here you see portrayed.

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When freezing-point was drawing near

And all the beds were made,

A servant took a normal brick

And set it in the fire

Stirring the embers with a stick

Until the flames burned higher.

And when the brick was nigh red-hot

In the warmer it was placed

Then the warmer rubbed around the spot

Where the cold night must be faced.

Up and down and up and down

The master's sheets it went

Then it stroked milady's ruffled gown

Till its heat was almost spent.

Then Milord and Lady leaped with haste

Among the cosy covers!

Not letting heating go to waste!

What joy! What bliss for lovers!

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I like to think the servant too

Enjoyed the warmth remaining.

I hate to think that she turned blue

All shivers and 'chilblaning'!

I hope she rushed up to her room

And warmed her humble cot.

Some stolen comfort in the gloom

Would help her sorry lot.

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