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Hello!

Well, I will get to organic mechanic sometime unless you want to? But in the meantime I came across this from Ginny on a gardening site Digger's Rest. I smiled broadly - oh so smart! Thanks Ginny - have you written any others?

Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot
Whatever the weather
We'll weather the weather
Whether we like it or not!

Cheers now

Organic mechanic - why on earth did I ask for this? Anyway, here goes...

Organic Mechanic

Go green and recycle, please think of Mother Earth
Don't use any 'cides, just give them wide berth
Full many a way can your pest pots be saved
By natural remedies much better behaved!

Please join in, ta

Next subject: Butterflies

Hey Guys,

Who says we always have to follow the rules. See this pome I got from Mr A Nonni-Mouse.

Tights as pants for garden fashion,
Unsightly, leaves nothing
to the imaginashion.
Now if your dress was
a summary of passions,
then why not cover your bits
with some pink carnashions!

Cheers now and go for the butterflies next time,

And here is one from somebody who is also a Miss A Nonni-Mouse. She is shy and wishes to remain mysterious as it is a VALENTINE'S VERSE.

Listen Pleeez

Roses are Red and
Violets are Blue
Unchain my heart or
Just say "I DO!"

I am sure Ogden would have liked that one.

Have you got a piece of Valentine-style verse to offer? Why not mix the two into one theme ... that of gardening and love? Works for me - thanks and cheers now,

Butterflies in the garden

She flutters by,
saying hi
to the zinnia.
But that's not her dinnia,
for she loves the nectar of phlox
in the window box.
Phlox rocks.

To get to the aster
her sister has-ter
fly past-er.

Their brother's not losin'
his chance, he comes cruisin'
seekin' a black-eyed Susan.

Oh, I adora
all the flora
and the butterflies
delight my eyes.

Next: Snails

Thank you so much for this delight Mona, all colourful too just like a Flutterby. Well here is my magnum opus on snails - dropping back to one verse next time around.


A Snail's lot?

Oh slicky snail so slowly loitering
giving me an ugh! when I am watering
It's no good just picking you up or throwing you away,
Doggone it! You'll only come back another day.

That slimy sluggy trail you leave
Makes me for my lettuces grieve
I know you like them, but darn! So do I
So listen Mr Snail, you go now - bye bye.

Your mortal enemy is a Hadeda's cry
'cos he sees you easily with his eagle eye
He chomps through your shell for a stork's snacky bit
So leave my garden now - go, go, get on with it!

You don't speak English? What do you mean
Well then Mr Snail, do you speak Green?
If so then you'll know that a bucket of water with salt
Will certainly bring your garden journey to a halt.

I wonder often if there is a snail heaven
For if you don't leave now it's for there you'll be leavin'
Begone, slide away Begone, go on slither
And don't take my smile as a sort of come hither

Now my heart softens for my Aggies I know
Always give you a safe and comfy place to go
So leave the veggie patch alone, pray Snail
And please don't come back or you'll face my pail.

Cheers now,


Next up: Lemons

Hey Francine, thank you for your comments - poetry suggestion is not required or set in stone. I am just having so much fun with this Ogden verse game so I carry on playing.

So here is one for you!

O Woe is Me.

Now Francine's snaily tale of woe
Started in her car with far to go
To find a place of safety, there the snails to sleep
off their adventures with beer, their lives to keep

But now Francine of her neighbours is not so sure
As with her story now their snails they do lure
with beer too, and then for a snaily first course
Serve them up for grub in a garlic sauce.

BUT a snail and his sluggy mates are not so *dof
See they now have German hedgehogs to see them off
Are they pleased? Who can tell as most slide and slime
Thwarting those critters ... and just in time!

* dof rhymes with off and is Afrikaans for dull-witted or stupid.


Smile now!

Cheers

And here is another VALENTINE'S VERSE...

Listen to the Whispers!

Chocolate is coming, I don't want to get fat
It's the white truffle stuff that knocks off my hat
And for you? Maybe the rich and dark 90% cocoa
Drives you nuts or makes you coca-loco!

Leave the chocolate behind please I'll spring for a rose
Any colour will do, as for me anything goes
As long as with it comes a bit of ... well you know
Those three little words plus, so just go with the flow

St Valentine now you'd better do your bit
As all of us, that's you and me, just get on with it
To celebrate a day on 14 Feb, a day of love
Sweet sentiments and goo I am certainly not above!

Now heed my words you silly man
Or you'd better make another plan
To stay over with a work-a-day mate
If nowt is done, then a sound round you'll rate!


Cheers now and smile see!

Lestie and Francine, thanks for your tales of snails. It was a good laugh. I have a friend who used beer traps, but I can't imagine her tenderly relocating the molluscs to a nature reserve. I don't know if she never thought of the butter and garlic, or whether our garden snails aren't the culinary variety.