{"id":180,"date":"2006-08-16T01:27:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T01:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=180"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:42:26","slug":"maggie-and-millie-and-mollie-and-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"maggie and millie and mollie and may"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“maggie and millie and molly and may”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

millie befriended a stranded star
who’s rays five languid fingers were;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may<\/p>\n\n\n\n

came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e.e.cummings is another favourite poet of mine. He is one of my wordsmiths -poets who are able to use words tightly in a very remarkable way. I group him with Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manly Hopkins and Carl Sandburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love this poem for its simplicity and its depth – how many of us can relate to stones as large as alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In January when we were planning this vacation (planning holidays is my husband’s escape – so we start early – very early) I said to Dorothy Siemens – Fiddlesticks Knitting – that I had already found a poem for my weblog and that I had planned to refer to her Creatures of the Reef shawl, if that were OK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have seen Creatures of the Reef knit in several colours of Zephyr yarn and each colour changes the shawl into another remarkable place. Shown here in Sage, it is a northern beach, in reds it becomes P.E.I. (Prince Edward Island), in Copper it is somewhere very warm and sunny, I even think that it would work in pink for Bermuda – just pick a colour; knit it; wear it and be transported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motifs that Dorothy used are so much like those in the poem. There are star fish, crabs, sea horses, shells, fish, waves – all original motifs in the breeziest lace. Just think of the fun of knitting each one and remembering your beach adventures, or dreaming of a time when you will go to the beach too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won’t take the shawl as a knitting project for this holiday. I would rather wait until January, when I need to be taken back to the sea\u2026back to the sun, the warmth, and the freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’ve started thinking of the project, particularly the colour. Now let me see, how about Violet for that magical time just after sunset and a little before dark – that half light of our imagination – with the water shimmering under the rising moon\u2026hmmmm\u2026maybe Lilac would be better – it has more blue in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dream on<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“maggie and millie and molly and may” maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and millie befriended a stranded starwho’s rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thingwhich raced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}