rhapsody September 13th, 2008
Fr. Leo Clifford!!!
LISTEN IN WHEN YOU CAN -
Thanks 2 Paul @
LifeIsBeautiful777
for posting many of
Fr. Clifford’s insightful
Reflections for us! 
Labels: Let he who has ears listen
rhapsody May 7th, 2007
When as a kid of just past ten -
Or almost twelve – Yes, that was when!
I came across a poem so dear
It left me smiling ear to ear.
A tree – the cause of why I grinned,
That laughed amidst the summer wind
As decades passed, and years flew by-
“A blog!” I thought I’d give a try;
Hmmm – what to show for all to see?
I’ll post my favorite happy tree!
The little one that’s not a crier,
Penned by Ernestine Cobern Beyer.
“Hi!” a lady typed one day,
“That’s my mom!” she wrote to say.
So it was a rhyme of whimsy
That inspired this verse – (so flimsy!)
To Barbara, Kathie, Margo, Tim-
It’s for you all I’m thanking Him! 
rhapsody April 27th, 2007
(Bravo! Celine D. & Elvis P.)
rhapsody April 2nd, 2007
from Ernestine Cobern Beyer-
with many thanks to her daughter,
Barbara Beyer Malley.
Easter Parade
Doff, my soul, your sober dress,
Heart, wear your fairest frills.
He must have loved all loveliness
Who dressed the daffodils!In My Garden
Pausing on my lawn, I glimpse a bird,
And in its singing, Lord, I hear Thy Word.
Nearby, I see a lilac bush in bloom,
And feel thy presence in its faint perfume.
And when I see thy smile, my spirit thrills –
Though what I look upon is daffodils.Spring
As in a small reflecting-glass
The sun’s rays fiercely focus,
So Spring is captured in the grass
By one important crocus. 
rhapsody March 26th, 2007
Lesson in Spring
by Ernestine Cobern Beyer
Who places credence in the tomb
And bows too long in grief,
Must argue with the clover-bloom
And contradict the leaf.
rhapsody March 24th, 2007
an old friend, who remembered
how much I loved this song…
It’s one of my all-time favorites,
that I learned to play on my recorder
almost thirty-five years ago…link
Back then, the music that this man
wrote played a major part in keeping
my teen years sane – as the hours and
years of practicing the music I loved
to listen to, gave me a sense of peace
like nothing I’d ever known.
Thank you, sir.
rhapsody March 16th, 2007
By Ernestine Cobern Beyer
I met a little leprechaun.
He gasped and quavered: “Ooo!
I’m seeing things! Be off! Be gone!
There’s no such thing as you!
“You can’t be real, you ugly thing,
So I’m not scared,” he said,
“Though you have neither tail nor wing,
Nor horns upon your head!”
I looked at him, then ran, my dear,
As would, I think, have you,
‘Cause people sometimes disappear
When leprechauns say: “Boo!”
From the wonderful book for children:
Read Me a Rhyme, Please!
by Barbara Beyer Malley -
Available at Barnes & Noble
(& also linked to the right
under ‘Books’)
