Yellow River

Chinese painting on silk

MELLOW YELLOW MONDAY

YELLOW RIVER

(An Acrostic)

Yellow as a canary bird,

Even as it flows.
Loess makes the colour;
Like molten gold it shows.
Over the boundless countryside

Wide and full and strong

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Rushing through mighty gorges
It sings a river song.
Vast, the soaring mountains,
Effervescent, the tumbling foam.
River revered in China,

The Yellow River's home.

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*Loess is a type of yellow silt.

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BEET THIS!

This beetroot sculpture is awesome!

It's hard to believe my eyes!

That one could meet

A humble beet

In such an artistic guise!

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But the more I learn of beetroot

The more I am impressed!

This dark red root

Is of great repute

And one of Nature's best!

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I'm a devotee of beetroot;

I can eat it every day.

Baked or boiled,

Vinagered, oiled,

I can eat it any way.

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Which may be the reason I'm healthy

At a very senior age!

So now let me list

Things you may have missed

As you've turned your cook-book page.

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It can lower your cholesterol;

And your blood-pressure too!

It keeps cancer at bay

And in some clever way

Help with slimming! Yes! It's true!

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I could write pages and pages

On the benefits of the beet!

And it looks so great

Sitting on a plate!

Yes! A beetroot is hard to beat!

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PS

Our friends' daughter, who goes under the name of Jaye Ford, has just written her second book and we were at the launch yesterday evening. Her first book is doing fantastically well, having been already translated into several different languages, so it was a very up-beat occasion. Both her books are of the crime-suspense genre and it appears she's found her niche. I have yet to read the latest one, "Scared Yet?", but I believe it involves stalking. There was a large crowd at the Launch, but it was too cramped for photographs.

Jeanette and her husband.