More Mother Goose for the holiday (whichever one you are celebrating)

[capriuni]

Not explicitly Yuletide-themed, but it certainly strikes me as having that feel:

There was an old woman
Tossed up in a basket
Seventeen times as high as the moon.
Where she was going,
I couldn't but ask it,
For in her hand, she carried a broom.

"Old woman, old woman, old woman!" quoth I,
"Where are you going to, up so high?"

"To sweep the cobwebs off the sky."

"May I come with you?"

"Aye... by-and-bye."

Comments

[jekesta.livejournal.com]

Beautiful! Both the poem and the illustration:) I love the cobwebs on teh moon VERY MUCH INDEED.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I really do love many of the more obscure Mother Goose rhymes, and this one, especially, and have always wanted to do an illustration for it (I still want to do a 3-d doll version, to hang from my ceiling, somewhere, with an applehead doll (http://www.appledolls.org/page2.html) for the old woman).

Any poem with the line "Seventeen times as high as the moon" is for the win!

The cobwebs on the moon were fun to do. I have many cobwebs in my house for life study.

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