The Fairies Poem and Fairy Garden Photos

 I love garden tours. Today I went on the 23rd Annual Backyard Habitat Tour, sponsored by the Wachiska Audubon Society of Southeast Nebraska. My favorite garden was a delightful fairy garden created by Cathy and John McQuinn.  The whimsical statues and displays nestled in amongst the beautiful flowers reminded me of a favorite childhood poem called "The Fairies." I discovered it in our family's copy of "Childcraft." I used to read the poem in a little sing-songy voice:  "There are FAIRIES at the BOTTOM of our GARDEN. It's NOT so very VERY far aWAY . . . "

Here is the poem, accompanied by photos I took today in the garden:

The Fairies

By Rose Fyleman

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

   It’s not so very, very far away;

You pass the gardener’s shed and you just

keep straight ahead—

  I do so hope they’ve really come to stay.

There’s a little wood, with moss in it and beetles,

  And a little stream that quietly runs through;

You wouldn’t think they’d dare to come

         merry-making there—

                Well, they do.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

  They often have a dance on summer nights;

The butterflies and bees make a lovely little breeze,

  And the rabbits stand about and hold the lights.

Did you know that they could sit upon the moonbeams

  And pick a little star to make a fan,

And dance away up there in the middle of the air?

                Well, they can.

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden!

  You cannot think how beautiful they are;

They all stand up and sing when the Fairy Queen and King

  Come gently floating down upon their car.

The King is very proud and very handsome;

  The Queen—now can you guess who that could be

(She’s a little girl all day, but at night she steals away)?

                Well—it’s ME!

Random Sentence Generator: I CAN write free verse poetry after all

I've never been good at free verse poetry, but I think I've discovered a way to write some. Just use a random sentence generator. My husband discovered one at this link:

http://watchout4snakes.com/CreativityTools/RandomSentence/RandomSentence.aspx

I present my first free verse poem:

The emergency literature shuts the teapot inside the more vinyl.
Why does the romance stare over the legal paranoia?
A weapon complains in the extraneous bedroom.

The convincing lunchtime advances in the virgin stereo.
The textual article salts each absent upstairs.
The large helicopter tunnels the infamous skin.
The most frog bounces another insecure ash.

A freeze complains before the crystal.
Should the dirt insult a north?
A competent mill relaxes. A razor kids.
His blessed assumes the diverse skull within the domestic.

The despair chops its delayed lawyer past an arc.

END OF POEM
So what do you think?  Why not give it a try?  Use the random sentence generator link above.  You are allowed to delete sentences if you wish, but you can't change the sentences in any way.  I suppose you can rearrange the order of the sentences, though I didn't.

Then share your poem as a comment.