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Post by mysticbluebell on Sept 6, 2015 21:17:20 GMT
Now the black Elderberries give pleasure to people and birds: The Elder bush |
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Post by puddles on Sept 7, 2015 16:03:04 GMT
The Elder Bush
The berries of the elder bush
grow in the country away from town
inside the thicket so bold and lush
leaves a sweetness so profound
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Post by doreen23 on Sept 10, 2015 16:28:05 GMT
Sorry do not know much about the Elder Bush so looked it up and I wrote a poem about the myths of the Elder Tree and bush
The bush is associated to witches
It has a bad temper
And do not sleep under the Elder
In any kind of weather
For you may not wake up
Expecially if you are old
Yet Elder is a medicinal plant
an cure anything from burns to common cold
But the Elderflower can be very useful
Makes a delicious cordial and wine
And if young girls was faces in the morning dew
She will stay youthful in her prime
But Judas used the Elder Tree
When he hung himself
After he betrayed Jesus
For people said he was evil
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Post by Alan on Sept 11, 2015 7:53:12 GMT
I never knew that Doreen! Thank you
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Post by Alan on Sept 11, 2015 7:55:38 GMT
Lovely rhyme Roland, thank you for your poem
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Post by mysticbluebell on Sept 11, 2015 17:43:02 GMT
Thanks to Roland and Doreen. Hugh,this sounds rather dark, I would think they must be good fairies with the elder bush, because here it is regarded with very positive meaning and there is not a farm house (at least not of old) which has no elder bush growing close to the house with the belief of good blessings coming from it.
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