Sunday, September 29, 2013

About those tomatoes . . .


Oops.

In the last blog post
a photo of tomatoes on the vine
prompted the recall of
a long-ago poem.

I thought the first two lines were:

clothes on the line
tomatoes on the vine

BUT!
Today I remembered the correct version:

flowers on the vine
bermudas on the line

summer came and 
summer went and 

no one fed the swine.

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Ho! 



Flowers!
Bermudas!

No tomatoes!

Brains are amazing storehouses . . .

xx








8 comments:

  1. They are! Love how time and space can bring clarity or recall memory.

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  2. And then, when you realize your brain lapse, it almost seems unbelievable! I like the tomatoes better than the Bermudas. xo

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  3. My favorite Bermudas were the color of ripe tomatoes....
    Love these posts.

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  4. ha! it's funny how the swine remained the constant in each poem.

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  5. The memory returns.
    It always does. Sometimes in the strangest of places and times though.

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  6. I like the Ho! too. Still melodic & playful with words...Did you paint the little watercolor? It has an asian calligraphic feel to it & is very sweet!

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