<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527908" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Naming of Things.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's a Small Skipper <br>Jane said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And that's a Clouded yellow <br>as two butterflies </div><div style="margin:10px 0">flittered overhead <br>as you both lay </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in the tall grass <br>on the side </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of the Downs <br>and you followed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her finger<br>as it indicated </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the butterflies' flight <br>and then they were gone </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and she gazed at you <br>and said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What? <br>How do you know </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the names of things? <br>I'm a country girl </div><div style="margin:10px 0">not a townie like you <br>she replied </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her lips moulding <br>the words like a potter </div><div style="margin:10px 0">moulds clay <br>and you caught a whiff </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of her perfume <br>carried on the calm breeze </div><div style="margin:10px 0">over your heads <br>and you looked </div><div style="margin:10px 0">at her there <br>in the grass </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her head turned back <br>to the sky </div><div style="margin:10px 0">her eyes reflecting <br>the summer blue </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and her left leg <br>bent upwards </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so that her knee <br>stood naked </div><div style="margin:10px 0">beneath the sun <br>and her right hand </div><div style="margin:10px 0">lay next to yours <br>the white blouse </div><div style="margin:10px 0">open at the neck <br>and she said </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I often used to lay here <br>alone listening </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to the overhead birds <br>and the winds' moan </div><div style="margin:10px 0">watching tractors <br>in the fields below </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and mother wondering<br>where I was </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And now? <br>you asked </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Does she wonder <br>where you are now? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">she turned her head <br>and gazed at you </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No not now <br>she knows I'm with you </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that I'm showing you <br>the store of nature </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and the panoramic view<br>And she trusts you? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">you asked <br>sensing her hand </div><div style="margin:10px 0">touch yours <br>the flesh warm </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and soft <br>She trusts you </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jane said <br>and another butterfly </div><div style="margin:10px 0">fluttered by <br>like a ballerina overhead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527908" data-title="Naming of Things. de Terry Collett" data-description="That's a Small Skipper Jane said And that's a Clouded yellow as two butterflies flittered overhead as you both lay in the tall grass on the side of the Downs and you followed her finger as it indicated the butterflies' flight and..."></div> </div> </div>

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