Tag: Alice B. Johnson

• Fallen Petals by Alice B. Johnson (1958)

  I hope you enjoy the following poem by my great-grandmother Alice B. Johnson (taken from her book, Where Children Live, 1958)

  Fallen Petals

  I cannot see the brown earth turned
  Upon white petals gently blown
  Upon the ground where I should spade
  My garden plot. Have I not learned
  I must not waste one precious day
  Of spring? Somehow it will not stay
  And wait for seeds that should be sown –
  Why MUST I let my heart be swayed
  By fallen petals of yesterday –
  Why can’t they gently blow away?

  March 16, 2015

  Alice B. Johnson, poem, poetry, spring

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• Alice B. Johnson, poet

  

  My great-grandmother, Alice B. Johnson, author of three poetry books and The Complete Scandinavian Cookbook.

  May 21, 2014

  Alice B. Johnson

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