Contrasts

BLACK AND WHITE

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CONTRASTS

Above, the hustle of the town,

People, traffic, up and down.

Below, the fishing bridge, so quiet,

Quite divorced from the city riot.

How fortunate we have the choices....

Raucous or elemental voices.

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LAVENDER LITERATURE

The opening page of a story-book;

I wonder what lies within.

It must be a Lavender story

So why don't we begin.....

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"Olivia was a Princess

Who lived in Lavender Land.

She, of course, was beautiful

And her Palace was very grand.

The Palace was set in Lavender fields

That stretched out far and wide,

Great blooming piles of lavender

Abounding on every side.

Olivia dressed in lavender.

(Well, what else could she do?)

And on each dainty little foot

She wore a lavender shoe!

Her Palace was delightful

But she lived in it alone,

And every day she wished and wished

For a lover of her own.

One day, while gazing over the fields

She spied a handsome man,

Cutting swathes of lavender,

And she thought of a clever plan....

She took a shoe from a dainty foot

And threw it in the air!

It landed by the handsome man

But he didn't see it there!

He continued with his picking

Till he came upon the shoe,

And he bent down and he picked it up.

(Well, what else would he do?)

Of course, he went up to the castle,

And knocked on the great front door,

Feeling rather nervous

As he'd not been there before.

'I found this dainty slipper'

He stuttered, looking shy,

'I thought I'd better bring it here

As I was passing by.'

The servant was about to snatch it

When, down the steps from above

Ran the Princess Olivia

And, of course,

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(No prize for guessing the last line!)