Tag: Sunday song and rhyme

  • Snowdrops

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    Jane Shaw
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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge starting February 4th is To the Thawing Wind, by appropriately named Robert Frost, published in 1913; Come with rain, O loud Southwester!Bring the singer, bring the nester;Give the buried flower a dream;Make the settled snowbank steam;Find the brown beneath the white;But whate’er you do tonight,Bathe my window, make…

  • Angels

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    The Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge for December 24th to January 6th was based on the rhyme Beneath the Wings of Angels by Clay Harrison, I cut a layered Angel image with my Cricut, quite time consuming with so many layers, but looks very effective. The image is from Design Bundles. The backing is…

  • New Year, New Beginnings

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    he Outlawz Sunday Song and Rhyme challenge is based on the poem New Beginnings by Christopher Westra. I personally struggle with New Year and New Beginnings and always find this time of year very hard. Although the messages in the poem about pushing aside past mistakes, clearing priorities and treating each day as a new…

  • Passing of the seasons

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    The Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme challenge for Nov 26th to Dec 9th, is my challenge I came across a poem called the Calendar by Barbara-Euphan-Todd I knew when Spring was come – Mot by the murmurous hum Of bees in the willow-trees, Or frills Of daffodils. Or the scent of the breeze; But because there…

  • Laughter is the best medicine!

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    Laughter is the best medicine, it is thought this quote originally came from the Bible, Proverbs 17 – 22. Many others have said similar things. Anyway I digress. The Outlawz challenge for Oct 29th is the rhyme/song Kookaburra. Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,Merry merry king of the bush is he.Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,Gay…

  • Sparkly wedding

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    Jane Shaw
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    The current Outlawz challenge is based on a poem by Edgar Allen Poe called Eulalie a Song, it was first published in 1845. It is slightly different wording to the poem Eulalie. I DWELT alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride…

  • Looking like Halloween

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    Jane Shaw
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    For the current Outlawz Challenge the poem chosen is The Hag by Robert Herrick; The Hag is astride, This night for to ride; The Devill and shee together: Through thick, and through thin, Now out, and then in, Though ne’r so foule be the weather. A Thorn or a Burr She takes for a Spurre: With a lash of…

  • Summer’s End

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    This challenge is sponsored by Starstampz so needed to use one of their images.  I actually chose the image before I knew what the rhyme was! The rhyme chosen is; The familiar rhythm of the cricket’s chirpsCreate the soundtrack for each day,Echoing Summer’s endAnd that Autumn’s on her way. The stifling heat of the summer sunIs now…

  • Monkey Business

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    Jane Shaw
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    The challenge for Outlawz Sunday song and rhyme for May 29th is the song Swinging on a Star by Bing Crosby; Would you like to swing on a starCarry moonbeams home in a jarAnd be better off than you areOr would you rather be a mule A mule is an animal with long funny earsKicks up at…

  • My Challenge

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    The rhyme for Outlawz Sunday Song & Rhyme for April 30th was chosen by me. As most of the challenge period was in May I chose May Is Pretty, May Is Mildby Annette Wynne May is pretty, May is mild,Dances like a happy child;Sing out, robin; spring out, flowers;April went with all her showers,And the…