Mary Christine Music: POETRY Blog

MOTHER OF PEARL
 
Gotta keep movin, gotta keep groovin
Gotta take care, gotta beware
Gotta take time and make up our minds
To live in fear or get in gear!
 
It's a mixed up planet, a crying piece of granite
Broken and scarred but it's our back yard
And if we really care we'll clean up the air
Create fields to roam, cause the world's our home
 
Lord bless our souls as the world unfolds
Let the children know there's room to grow
In the new rebirth of our Mother Earth
In the new rebirth of our Mother Earth
 
Gotta keep movin, gotta keep groovin
Gotta take care, gotta beware
Gotta take time and make up our minds
To restore this world to a Mother of Pearl
Restore this world to a Mother of Pearl!
 
(c) (p) Mary C. Hargreaves

CHICKADEE
 
 
Wild and free
Yet so close to me
A miracle
Called chickadee
 
Little bird
Sweetest song
Brightest white
And black belong
 
To this childlike
Feathered friend
Who stands so brave
Through seasons of Maine
 
A day cannot go by
Without a passing word
To my little
Chickadee bird
 
(c)(p) Mary C. Hargreaves

OH UKULELE
Oh ukulele
You are magic
Sweet soprano
Sing your song
 
Oh ukulele
Strings of joy
Brighten my day
With your charm
(c) (p) 2010 Mary C. Hargreaves

ONE DAY IN MAINE
One day I went up to Moosehead Lake, pitched a tent and stayed up late
Got up early with the sun, ate some donuts one by one
Jumped inside my new canoe, then checked out the mountain view
 
Slowly started to paddle out, from the distance heard a shout
Look over there! to my left in the shallow inlet there was a Moose! 
And then another! A family of them under cover
 
Eating green and slippery weeds, from the water under trees
Mejestic soft with velvet coat, they looked at me in my boat
As if to say
 
Hey! Have a nice day! I returned the look and went my way
Couldn't have been a nicer day on Moosehead Lake
One day in Maine
(c)(p) 2010 Mary Christine Hargreaves
 
 

BIG BLACK BEAR
Big black bear you don't scare
Me in my yard, as you stare
I've seen you out there, how do you dare
Eat my birdseed with no care
 
Your coat is shiny black as night
You're big and round and got some height
I kinda like to watch you eat
then walk away on all four feet
 
Cause I know, I should beware
And not get friendly with YOU bear
I'll have to take away your treat
It's summer now the birds will eat
 
And you can travel on I'm counting
That you'll stay up on that mountain
Go on now, you've had your share
Eat my birdseed don't you dare
 
Big black bear
You don't scare
Better beware
Big Black Bear!
(c) (p) 2010 Mary C. Hargreaves