Garden Bloggers Muse Day - July 2008

I photographed this in Mississippi.
I have no idea what it is!
We could muse...

Check out other Muse Day posts at

Carolyn Gail's "Sweet Home and Garden Chicago"
These posts will be lovely and sensitive.
You will enjoy them.

But I just couldn't help it!
This is my chance to share a silly poem on
"A Muse" Day
post. :-)

(My apologies, Carolyn!)

(these are my niece's twins)
"The Twins"
by Henry S. Leigh

In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
that folks got taking me for him,
and each for one another.
It puzzled all our kith and kin,
it reached an awful pitch;
For one of us was born a twin,
yet not a soul knew which.

One day (to make the matter worse),
before our names were fixed,
As we were being washed by nurse
we got completely mixed;
And thus, you see, by Fate's decree,
(or rather nurse's whim),
My brother John got christened me,
and I got christened him.

This fatal likeness even dogg'd
my footsteps when at school,
And I was always getting flogged,
for John turned out a fool.
I put this question hopelessly
to every one I knew ---
What would you do, if you were me,
to prove that you were you?

Our close resemblance turned the tide
of my domestic life;
For somehow my intended bride
became my brother's wife.
In short, year after year the same
absurd mistake went on;
And when I died - the neighbors came
and buried brother John!

Only slightly shady. lol.