Things I'll Never Outgrow and Reading The Past

For Fireblossom Friday Lists

Things I'll Never Outgrow

dying Easter eggs
blowing bubbles
playing in mud puddles
coloring books
puppies
and toads

For Mama Zen Words Count  Power Image

Twenty-five words exactly.

Reading The Past

hundreds of years

or maybe centuries

passed

before the ground

gave up its secrets

we read their history

in stone

and bones

they left behind

Both for the prompt today at 

Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads 

Continuance

Bark to ashes

Fire doesn't end all

This is truth

Black, gray

Feeds the worm

To give to Mother Earth

Ye old mother

To hear her needs

Thou will be blessed

Man, woman and beast

We strain to hear

Awake!

Our bounty is not to spit on

But to reverently hold

In our hands and our heart

For what?

Continuance  

Words Count With Mama Zen At Imaginary Garden With Real Toads.

Sixty words exactly from the list Mama Zen provided.

Whew!  It was fun.