DoninIL Loc: East Central Illinois

A while back on UHH I was venting about not being able to till my garden and the weeds were taking over. That made me think of a music/poetry/slides program my wife created. She loved to sing (had a beautiful, trained voice) and did a lot of it for her Women’s Fellowship group. For one of her programs she had an idea of what she wanted to do. She picked out poems to use and music to sing and then went through hundreds of my slides to find pictures she wanted to use (she didn’t always pick the pictures I would have - but - it was HER program.) Anyway she ended up with about 220 slides When she couldn’t find what she wanted, she asked me to take a photo she could use. These slides go back to 1951 and were taken with 4 or 5 different cameras, starting with an Argus C3 which was my first camera, followed by an Exa, a Voitlander Vitessa, a Miranda Sensorex EE, and finally a Nikon N6006. But I didn’t have the Nikon at the time she created the program, however she added some to it after I got the Nikon

Here’s the poem I was reminded of and the pictures she used with it. The slides are scanned in with a Pacific Image PrimeFilm XE scnner.


The Dandelion’s Soliloquy
Loyal Morris Thompson

I’m just a dandelion
Growing mid the grass,
Spurned, derided, trod upon

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I sally forth in early Spring, I challenge Winter’s cold, Against the dead brown grass I fling

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My stars of flaming gold. The qualities that live in me Deserve a better fate, For in the world of human kind They ornament the great

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Men seem to fear when they grow old, I laugh when dawns the day When time has touched my head of gold


And turned it silver gray And then the wind in fury blows


And then the wind in fury blows And leaves my old head bare I chuckle to myself and see My seeds float everywhere

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Then all about the countryside, Though friends I count are few, Undaunted by the frown of men My soul shall bloom anew

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

[quote=DoninIL]Great idea of joining poem and pictures. Question first line.

"I’m just a dandelion, growing mid the grass,
Spurned, derided, trod upon......................."


I something missing, this line does not rhyme?

DoninIL Loc: East Central Illinois

[quote=Meives]

Thanks for noticing. In trying to align the poem with the pictures as she used them, I left out a line. It should say

I'm just a dandelion
Growing mid the grass
Spurned, derided, trod upon
By careless feet that pass.

Since I'm so familiar with what she did and the way it is supposed to go, I probably would never have noticed it.

Thanks again
Don

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

Thanks Don. I did a Google search and read many dandelion poems. You inspired me today. David

DoninIL Loc: East Central Illinois

David,

I don’t think I inspired you - maybe what my wife did was some inspiration.

Unfortunately, she’s no longer capable of giving any kind of program and like a dumbbell, I didn’t have enough sense to tape her. I should have known it would be worth it. I had seen the reaction of people when, after a brief introduction, she started singing “Spring Is Here With Joy and Song” and the first slide (of a waterfall near the Old Stoneface in the Shawnee National Forest) popped up on the screen.

I hope your inspiration leads to something. I have discovered that most people really enjoy and appreciate such things

Sirius_one Loc: S.F. Bay Area

A beautifully illustrated poem. Very well done!!!!!!

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

Our harbinger of spring!!

DoninIL Loc: East Central Illinois

Thanks Sirius,

I can't take much credit for it; my wife did the slide picking. I'm not sure how much she'll understand of what I've done posting here, but I'll tell her what you said.

DoninIL Loc: East Central Illinois

Isn't it!!!. My wife ended her Winter series with a poem about the crocus announcing Spring.

Thanks for the comment

Sirius_one Loc: S.F. Bay Area