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Golden Fauns

Golden Fauns The golden fauns of Tebizond Forest Have decked their curls with moss And hung bright-petalled marigolds Upon their fluted horns. Laughingly they sup from autumn acorns The sweet...

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On Goblin Sound - Rosebud and Willowdown

On Goblin Sound On Goblin Sound small boats abound with flags of many colours Hip-hip-hooray, grotesque things say and cheer the Goblin Regatta! Leprechauns in jaunty hats are jiggling in the rigging...

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wunderlust and the dragon fly

wunderlust and the dragon flylook wunderlust, funny bynny said.i have made a new friend, he is a dragon flybut he is of every colour, i thought they were only onehe comes only to us to see.do you...

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wunderlust and the flower sprite....in peaceful pub

wunderlust and the flower spritewhat's that sticking from the groundit's a little flower, hannah saidthe first signs of springwunderlust looked closerand thought eh saw a tiny personhe leaned in,...

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It's Market Day for cats

It's Market Day for cats: there's balls of wool for kittens to chase, there's pirate mice with painted-on faces, there's edible boots, that look little guinea pigs, stuffed with savoury tuna with...

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For the Benefit of Sally's Kite

Sally Tompkins is flying a kite, as well she might, for this weekend is the long-expected kite flying competition on Samila Beach and the skies wil be full of dragons and bats and strange two-headed...

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wunderlust and the mermaid part 1

Wunderlust sat beneath the grey oak, but buds not yet bloominghe, Hannah and shadow hadbeen out riding, as it was almost spring it began warm and beckoning.wunderlust, what do you hear, shadow...

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wunderlust and the mermaid part 1 in peaceful pub

Wunderlust satbeneath the grey oak, but buds not yet bloominghe, Hannah and shadow hadbeen out riding, as it was almost springit began warm and beckoning.wunderlust, what do you hear, shadow...

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Captain Feathersword - monologue by Norah age 2 years 5 months

Captain Feathersword(imaginative monologue)I'm Captain Feathersword. I will make you walk the plank, and you will fall in the sea, and the dolphins will eat you.I've got weapons. Plunge into the sea...

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wunderlust and the mermaid part 2

how spectacular the skylooks, Hannah saidi feel like an ic cream conelet's imagine one.can we still search for the mermaid, wunderlust said to her.of course that's the magic, my sted fast cat.now we...

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wunderlust and the mermaid the last part in peaceful pub

as they playedthey could hear the cry of the eagleit was a warning, the cloudsbegan to darkenand the sky became spookywe should go, Hannah saidas the ocean spray began to riseyes the mermaid saidit...

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wunderlust and the sugar bush part 1

we're going to a sugar bushthat's why the rush, little chick saidone fine morning what's a sugar bushfunny bunny saidcan we come too, or is it hush-hush it's where they make maplesyrupthey get it from...

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Ocean Voice

Ocean Voice listens to all the songs of the ocean around him, the burbling of fish, the wondrous wailing of the whale, the silver laughter of the stingray, the symphony of the starfish, the...

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Poem by Norah age 2 1/2

Poem The mouse cried the duck flew the kite away  by Norah Mullally (age 2½ years)21/4/13This is Norah's latest. I read her a number of poems, most of them from Penned Legacy.A little while later, she...

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Tawny Forrest

Tawny Forrest has a new hat - all white and spiky with bright red berries like the eyes of a witches familiar. Brrr, what a cold hat but Tawny Forrest doesn't mind he rolls about barking in the fluffy...

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on a sunny Saturday

At lasta sunny April daybut all the bears have run away,At least they're nowhere that I see,I wonder where those bears can be.Silly creatures one and all,they do not answer when I call.They have no...

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Boris

Dragon of the Forest I met your cousin Boris just the other day just back from the North Pole where (he said) he caught a cold. Inbetween exhaling icicles he asked if I would say hello if I should run...

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Sun Traveler, Whirlpool Traverser

Sun Traveler, Whirlpool Traverser, the spider dance scurrier over the nets of the sea, drawn by subtle tensions a thousand leagues away where a Spanish frigate has touched a strand of its sticky web,...

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May's Days

flowers dancing in the breezesun-warmed and smilingwe race the breezeand winnot by speed or gracebut just by being herewhere spring rules overall the earthand winter's chillis just a distant memory

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the rescue of lambie pie

Llisten, Wunderlust said, as they heard a baa, I think I know where Lambie Pie is. They went down the hill, and to where the train would leave. At train whistle cottage  I wish to write On a trail of...

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