
<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 26pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Nature Trail</span><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">by Benjamin Zephaniah<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">At the bottom of my garden </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's a hedgehog and a frog </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And a lot of creepy-crawlies </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Living underneath a log, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's a baby daddy long legs </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And an easy-going snail </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And a family of woodlice, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">All are on my nature trail. </span><br></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There are caterpillars waiting </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">For their time to come to fly, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There are worms turning the earth over </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">As ladybirds fly by, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Birds will visit, cats will visit </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">But they always chose their time </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And I've even seen a fox visit </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">This wild garden of mine. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Squirrels come to nick my nuts </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And busy bees come buzzing </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And when the night time comes </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sometimes some dragonflies come humming, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My garden mice are very shy </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And I've seen bats that growl </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And in my garden I have seen </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A very wise old owl. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">My garden is a lively place </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's always something happening, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">There's this constant search for food </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And then there's all that flowering, </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">When you have a garden </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">You will never be alone </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">And I believe we all deserve </span><br><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">A garden of our own.</span></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"></span></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></body></html>