Pencil and Paint

Pencil and Paint

Winter has a pencil
For pictures clear and neat,
She traces the black tree-tops
Upon a snowy sheet.

But autumn has a palette
And a painting-brush instead,
And daubs the leaves for pleasure
With yellow, brown, and red.

Eleanor Farjeon

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Cats Sleep Anywhere

Traditionalist Tonka, snoozing in the cat bed.

Cat sleep anywhere,
Any table, any chair,
Top of piano, window-ledge,
In the middle, on the edge.
Open drawer, empty shoe,
Anybody’s lap will do.
Fitted in a cardboard box,
In the cupboard with your frocks.
Anywhere! They don’t care!
Cats sleep anywhere.

Eleanor Farjeon (1881 – 1965)

Moey, in laundry basket.

Capone, comfy on the back of the chesterfield.

Arthur, on camp chair.

Momcat, on chair back.

Mikey, snoozing on porch rafter.

But when you get right down to it, there’s nothing like piling on Mom for sleeping.

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