Down the valley,
churn and bubble,
runs the river
on the double,
flowing past
town and trouble.
May every care
frown and drown,
mix and churn
submerged in brown,
cleansed of what
slows us down.
Copyright 2021 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: Two weeks at my new job, and the weekend washes any cares away. Whoever thought of weekends was a genius. Okay, I had to look it up. Who’d have guessed that it was Henry Ford, partly to market his cars. Not only did he help give us weekends, he gave us cars. But he didn’t invent rhyming. We humans have probably been rhyming as long as we’ve been talking. My middle son took to rhyming when he was under one year old. Some of us never grow out of it. So enjoy your car, your weekend, and a little ditty. May it be magic.
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
love your rhyming poem Brenda, it just rolls off your tongue like the river,
“flowing fast from
care and trouble. ”
Beautiful river too!
I don’t seem to have much of a weekend anymore since I started teaching online–but I like the idea of them…
Hope your new job is going well, and another yay for rhyme!
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This has been tough on teachers. The new job is going well, but I’m having to be super organized on the weekends to be ready for the weeks. Yay for rhyme!
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Pleased my Mind!
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So happy that it did. Makes the effort worthwhile. Thanks for the comment.
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Oh, yes… LOVE IT!
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Thanks!
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Such a fun, rhyming poem, Brenda. There is magic in a rushing river, and you did a great job of capturing the magic and making it fun. Funny note about Ford inventing weekends, too. Lovely post, thank you.
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Thanks! The fewer the words, the harder to write, but the process is meditative for me. 🙂
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Hope your new job isn’t stressing you out. Also hope your husband found something he likes as well.
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The job is great! My hubby is… taking his time starting to look. He has mad skills, though, so no doubt he will find a new adventure one day.
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love your ditty and your weekend backstory, I had no idea!
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IKR?! Aren’t we lucky to live in a time where weekends are taken for granted? 😀
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Yes!
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Loved it!
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Thanks!
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