“Miss Tilly,” read by Pat Severin.
Miss Tilly
by Pat Severin
My neighbor, Miss Tilly, enjoys being silly.
She wears her black cat ‘round her head.
The cat doesn’t mind, for Miss Tilly is kind
and so is her husband, old Fred.
When Fred plants his garden, he says, “Beg your pardon,”
in case he disturbs Mr. Worm.
He moves the worm over to a patch thick with clover
and says, “There’s a new spot to squirm.”
Fred says from a worm we have so much to learn
for those worms really help the plants grow.
Aerating the soil is how the worms toil,
so the blossoms can put on a show.
About the Poet
Pat Severin, a retired Christian teacher, is also published in such Christian magazines as the Agape Review, the Clay Jar Review, The Way Back to Ourselves, Heart of Flesh, Vessels of Light, and Words of the Lamb. She is regularly featured in the SAP Anthologies and has contributed to three books.
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