1651

cauliflower -
recipes for hearty repast
paper clip fastened

a paperclip
bookmarks the pause -
reading at night

the night lamp
sheds its light; a mystery
takes time to unfold

flower petals dried -
the old diary retains
a bit of fragrance
© gillena cox


Revisit
Sunday Lime 1


Already its May, welcome May, here's a lil May tidbit:-
During Medieval times, the man proposed by leaving a hawthorn branch at the door of his beloved on the first of May. By leaving the branch at the door she accepted his proposal. She made known her refusal by replacing the hawthorn branch with a cauliflower.read more here


Sunday Smiles



How is your Sunday going? Today is #32 in the series 'Sunday Lime' To share with me you can EMAIL me; you can COMMENT; and you can enter a LINK from your blog, at the Linky below





I am blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry 250

Sunbeams

Though the period of European history from the 5th to the 11th century is often called the Dark Ages, writers and scholars of the time in fact did much to preserve and extend the light of civilization. A minor but felicitous contribution to the English language from this period is the word sunbeam, which is believed to have entered English in the 9th century through the work of Alfred the Great. A scholar as well as a king, Alfred undertook and oversaw the translation of a number of Latin works into the English of his time, now known as Old English. Among these was The Ecclesiastical History of the English People, a work composed by the Venerable Bede. The Latin phrase columna lcis, which we would today translate as "a column of light," occurs several times in this work. Since the Old English translator did not have the word column in his vocabulary, he used bam, which meant "a tree" or "a building post made from a tree" (our modern word beam). Columna lcis thus became sunnebem, or "sun post," which survives as our sunbeam. Though perhaps less stately than "column of light," sunbeam has brightened our language. From it the word beam alone came to mean "a ray or rays of light"; it subsequently became a verb meaning "to radiate." It now allows us not only to beam with pride or happiness but also to beam our broadcasts around the earth and even to the stars.
sunbeams Word History from...