A better week this has been. With a bumpy beginning to a smooth landing A customer presented me with a book printed as late as 1937 (by the date and signature inscribed inside. Who is/was Lela Fowler?) The book is from a series Worlds Greatest Literature....this one is #18 Best Loved Poems The Muddy Creek A gift of companionship I was given this week past Too fine a day to spend indoors My companions and I, a bike ride did take Beneath maple and oak beside muddy creek with its ripples and eddies in silence flowed, we rested While shadows danced across the forest floor, with me in silence, my companions began to speak Stories from the past they began to tell ... Tales of ships lost to the sea, of battles long forgotten.. and hearts, won or torn by love and fate I was lost to the prose they spoke to me To tell a story so grand and pure, I who sit here beneath maple and oak, beside silent flowing muddy creek, seek the beauty of my companions Byron, Keats, Shelly, Poe.... their prose so clearly flowed ccd 2011