Mud-Luscious - A Child's Joy in Spring - e e cummings
Sunday, May 22, 2011
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It is a rainy spring where I live. Rain and more rain. Days of rain with intermittent breaks of sun.
So when life gives you raindrops....
You make...
Mud Pies.
Learn to love the mud and you will be a happier person, I assure you....
My stepmother once chided me for playing in the dirt and mud, saying this wasn't proper for a young lady (I was 11)...
She didn't understand that this was ( and is) my greatest joy.
Perhaps I should have showed her one of my favorite poems. It is called 'In Just' by e e cummings.
Annual Mud Day Celebration in Westland, Michigan
a poem in praise of spring, mud, childhood and more by e e cummings:
in just-
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee.
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee.
from Imagine Childhood
Rainy Day Idea : make a mud house with fern roofing......
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