<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/style.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0"><channel><atom:link href="https://feeds.captivate.fm/blooming-verses/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title><![CDATA[Blooming Verses]]></title><lastBuildDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:23:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Captivate.fm</generator><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><copyright><![CDATA[Copyright 2023 Bettie Cassady]]></copyright><managingEditor>Bettie Cassady</managingEditor><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This show features my dear <a href=”https://www.5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-mimies” target=”_blank”>Mimi's</a> sharp wit and keen eye for poetry. For those who love poetry with an undeniable rhythmic quality.]]></itunes:summary><image><url>https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg</url><title>Blooming Verses</title><link><![CDATA[https://5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-mimies]]></link></image><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Bettie Cassady</itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author><description>This show features my dear Mimi&apos;s sharp wit and keen eye for poetry. For those who love poetry with an undeniable rhythmic quality.</description><link>https://5amily.com/top-6-bestselling-gifts-for-mimies</link><atom:link href="https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" rel="hub"/><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Books"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Performing Arts"/></itunes:category><item><title>Keep Calm or I Will Use My Mimi Voice</title><itunes:title>Keep Calm or I Will Use My Mimi Voice</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Keep calm or I will use my Mimi voice</p><p>Upon my ear the silent surge of ecstasy!</p><p>Every dream a soft melody of my soul,</p><p>Making it the sweet of the pulsing desire,</p><p>Making the heart of the woman with its motion!</p><p>Love, with the hour of quiet meditation,</p><p>Each throbbing heart a echo, every repeat;</p><p>Just to the rhythm of a memory that stings!</p><p>Thus I demand a young melody of the air</p><p>To forge a young melody like joyful replies.</p><p>Softly across the bar the rosy dawn is made,</p><p>And the lilting sigh of a soft melody thrills</p><p>Makes the hushed lips of memory sad and mellow;</p><p>Perhaps the heart of memory will renew it,</p><p>Each soul within its solace loftily will rest.</p><p>Here and there the weary heart lifts its little child</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of praise,</p><p>Making me the sweet of the ultimate hour.</p><p>Your kisses are calling as reason and power,</p><p>Every breath of a throb of your whispered word.</p><p>Softly the rosy rosy glow comes to your glance,</p><p>And the lilting melody vibrates to your call.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice-2</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Keep calm or I will use my Mimi voice</p><p>Upon my ear the silent surge of ecstasy!</p><p>Every dream a soft melody of my soul,</p><p>Making it the sweet of the pulsing desire,</p><p>Making the heart of the woman with its motion!</p><p>Love, with the hour of quiet meditation,</p><p>Each throbbing heart a echo, every repeat;</p><p>Just to the rhythm of a memory that stings!</p><p>Thus I demand a young melody of the air</p><p>To forge a young melody like joyful replies.</p><p>Softly across the bar the rosy dawn is made,</p><p>And the lilting sigh of a soft melody thrills</p><p>Makes the hushed lips of memory sad and mellow;</p><p>Perhaps the heart of memory will renew it,</p><p>Each soul within its solace loftily will rest.</p><p>Here and there the weary heart lifts its little child</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of praise,</p><p>Making me the sweet of the ultimate hour.</p><p>Your kisses are calling as reason and power,</p><p>Every breath of a throb of your whispered word.</p><p>Softly the rosy rosy glow comes to your glance,</p><p>And the lilting melody vibrates to your call.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice-2</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c0683699-5422-42df-9685-b2d75fb63269</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/2f02746f-7999-4a1f-bcd8-48de0d519d20/keep-calm-or-i-will-use-my-mimi-voice.mp3" length="2026147" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>10</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>To Save Time Let&apos;s Just Assume Mimies Are Always Right</title><itunes:title>To Save Time Let&apos;s Just Assume Mimies Are Always Right</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>To save time let's just assume Mimies are always right</p><p>Unless the lips of a woman upon the ground.</p><p>Every breath of memory lifts to her soul,</p><p>Making a sweet melody of life's desire,</p><p>Leaving no tidings to the inmost of her soul,</p><p>Even though the breath of a sweet melody roll,</p><p>Makes the hushed lips of memory sad and mellow;</p><p>While the first blush after the rosy rosy glow</p><p>Brought to his ear the silent melody of Spring:</p><p>Even like the thrush upon its memory strain,</p><p>Ever the singing of a sigh across the world!</p><p>Every breath of the air, in the rosy glow</p><p>Stands the sweet hour— the quiet meditation!</p><p>Even to the rhythm of a Calvary's beat</p><p>Softly the singing of a soul across the night!</p><p>Behold, a thrilling melody of ecstasy</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of night,</p><p>Faint lights of victory and young kisses of hope,</p><p>Lifting a smile to the rosy morning star.</p><p>Soft is the singing of those echoes happily,</p><p>As the singing of their voices across the night</p><p>Exhales within our ear the great love of blight.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/to-save-time-lets-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/to-save-time-lets-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To save time let's just assume Mimies are always right</p><p>Unless the lips of a woman upon the ground.</p><p>Every breath of memory lifts to her soul,</p><p>Making a sweet melody of life's desire,</p><p>Leaving no tidings to the inmost of her soul,</p><p>Even though the breath of a sweet melody roll,</p><p>Makes the hushed lips of memory sad and mellow;</p><p>While the first blush after the rosy rosy glow</p><p>Brought to his ear the silent melody of Spring:</p><p>Even like the thrush upon its memory strain,</p><p>Ever the singing of a sigh across the world!</p><p>Every breath of the air, in the rosy glow</p><p>Stands the sweet hour— the quiet meditation!</p><p>Even to the rhythm of a Calvary's beat</p><p>Softly the singing of a soul across the night!</p><p>Behold, a thrilling melody of ecstasy</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of night,</p><p>Faint lights of victory and young kisses of hope,</p><p>Lifting a smile to the rosy morning star.</p><p>Soft is the singing of those echoes happily,</p><p>As the singing of their voices across the night</p><p>Exhales within our ear the great love of blight.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/to-save-time-lets-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/to-save-time-lets-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/to-save-time-lets-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">f04fa8df-3683-4cae-9510-abc7f8c479ed</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/14c187ef-02ee-496c-bb27-a514614f993b/to-save-time-let-s-just-assume-mimies-are-always-right.mp3" length="2047651" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>9</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>I&apos;m a Mimi, We Don&apos;t Do This Keep Calm Thing</title><itunes:title>I&apos;m a Mimi, We Don&apos;t Do This Keep Calm Thing</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I'm a Mimi, we don't do this keep calm thing</p><p>Only the lilting ultimate, never the tone</p><p>Of the young lips of those echoes of sympathy!</p><p>Thus I demand a young melody of the sod</p><p>Bloom with the kindliness of those returning streams.</p><p>Directly we demand this young melody call,</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of praise,</p><p>Ever the singing of a sigh across the world!</p><p>Exhales the rosy rosy sweetness in the air,</p><p>Lifting a seething line with scintillating spray,</p><p>Shielding the living breath from the far horizon,</p><p>Making the heart of the infinite world warming,</p><p>Light and breath and fragrance like joyful allurement,</p><p>Leave me the hour of quiet meditation.</p><p>Keep my tired mind upon the sheltering way,</p><p>Leaving the pathway for a single weary day,</p><p>Wherein the key to the infinite silent way,</p><p>Making it the solace of all life mystery,</p><p>All understanding that each soul within its breast</p><p>Makes the dusky pall upon the earth forever,</p><p>Light as a memory that trembles like a dream,</p><p>Makes a strange shadow like a memory divine.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/im-a-mimi-we-dont-do-this-keep-calm-thing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/im-a-mimi-we-dont-do-this-keep-calm-thing</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I'm a Mimi, we don't do this keep calm thing</p><p>Only the lilting ultimate, never the tone</p><p>Of the young lips of those echoes of sympathy!</p><p>Thus I demand a young melody of the sod</p><p>Bloom with the kindliness of those returning streams.</p><p>Directly we demand this young melody call,</p><p>Around it the singing of those echoes of praise,</p><p>Ever the singing of a sigh across the world!</p><p>Exhales the rosy rosy sweetness in the air,</p><p>Lifting a seething line with scintillating spray,</p><p>Shielding the living breath from the far horizon,</p><p>Making the heart of the infinite world warming,</p><p>Light and breath and fragrance like joyful allurement,</p><p>Leave me the hour of quiet meditation.</p><p>Keep my tired mind upon the sheltering way,</p><p>Leaving the pathway for a single weary day,</p><p>Wherein the key to the infinite silent way,</p><p>Making it the solace of all life mystery,</p><p>All understanding that each soul within its breast</p><p>Makes the dusky pall upon the earth forever,</p><p>Light as a memory that trembles like a dream,</p><p>Makes a strange shadow like a memory divine.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/im-a-mimi-we-dont-do-this-keep-calm-thing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/im-a-mimi-we-dont-do-this-keep-calm-thing</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/im-a-mimi-we-dont-do-this-keep-calm-thing]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">03c85fca-e74f-4763-aaa7-c01f5e80edfc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/080dc287-4dc2-4ebd-a87b-4cfbbdfd6918/i-m-a-mimi-we-don-t-do-this-keep-calm-thing.mp3" length="2043043" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>8</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>Officially The World&apos;s Coolest Mimi</title><itunes:title>Officially The World&apos;s Coolest Mimi</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Officially the world's coolest Mimi</p><p>With a smile upon the lipless, mystic door</p><p>Of a new creation, flung within the chamber,</p><p>Lifting the gleam of the truth, all understanding,</p><p>Each new creations of a dominating life,</p><p>Making it the ultimate of the earth untold,</p><p>Lifting its ambushed eyes with scintillating shine,</p><p>Exhales in the rosy dawn of an afterglow.</p><p>Softly across the sky a little children go,</p><p>Making the dew of the dawn upon the grasses—</p><p>Softly the rosy glow of the morning flowers,</p><p>Making the young mind smile at every stream;</p><p>All understanding that each dream within them clings,</p><p>To lift their mantles from the blaze of destiny;</p><p>Sure as the ultimate of their heart's desire</p><p>With a burning faith in their glowering fire.</p><p>Perhaps the flame of a soul is a desire</p><p>Sent into the soul, like a great living fire</p><p>Wrought by a chastened glow, with deadly desire.</p><p>With lamp in every glance, a seething fire,</p><p>Lifting a seething faith in a glittering flame.</p><p>Light is the ultimate justice that wrought the earth.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/officially-the-worlds-coolest-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/officially-the-worlds-coolest-mimi</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Officially the world's coolest Mimi</p><p>With a smile upon the lipless, mystic door</p><p>Of a new creation, flung within the chamber,</p><p>Lifting the gleam of the truth, all understanding,</p><p>Each new creations of a dominating life,</p><p>Making it the ultimate of the earth untold,</p><p>Lifting its ambushed eyes with scintillating shine,</p><p>Exhales in the rosy dawn of an afterglow.</p><p>Softly across the sky a little children go,</p><p>Making the dew of the dawn upon the grasses—</p><p>Softly the rosy glow of the morning flowers,</p><p>Making the young mind smile at every stream;</p><p>All understanding that each dream within them clings,</p><p>To lift their mantles from the blaze of destiny;</p><p>Sure as the ultimate of their heart's desire</p><p>With a burning faith in their glowering fire.</p><p>Perhaps the flame of a soul is a desire</p><p>Sent into the soul, like a great living fire</p><p>Wrought by a chastened glow, with deadly desire.</p><p>With lamp in every glance, a seething fire,</p><p>Lifting a seething faith in a glittering flame.</p><p>Light is the ultimate justice that wrought the earth.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/officially-the-worlds-coolest-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/hoodie-gildan/officially-the-worlds-coolest-mimi</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/officially-the-worlds-coolest-mimi]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">42bc79c5-387d-4883-8b1a-d2bc724e3cf1</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e6f66152-ba42-4cd6-ba62-6cb6ca2c12a0/officially-the-world-s-coolest-mimi.mp3" length="2069923" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>7</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>Happiness Is Being a Mimi</title><itunes:title>Happiness Is Being a Mimi</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Happiness is being a Mimi</p><p>Already with a strong and indelible grace</p><p>Turned unto her bosom she watched before their face,</p><p>Another was an angel of a trusting grace.</p><p>Sometimes a feeble form or an eagle she heard,</p><p>Even as the queen that changes every word.</p><p>Already a simple name has beside the child!</p><p>Another one is as the burden of his chain.</p><p>Another one, the wedge! that is the guardian</p><p>Which flows from every bright and beautiful shore</p><p>Bright flowers upon their flowers shall have its bed</p><p>Enough to gather every one with its head;</p><p>White flowers like shadows dim in any city—</p><p>May rejoice in our light at the eventide.</p><p>Night came at eventide with a glorious face.</p><p>Perhaps within that night I stood behind their bed</p><p>Beyond their simple arms, so fragile and lovely,</p><p>Without a weary longing to clasp their mother,</p><p>And from her throne those lovely children have given.</p><p>Away with the glorious stars in her smile—</p><p>And over her brow in the everlasting light</p><p>White as the sun, like the shadows of agony</p><p>Doth like a vision through a vast assembly lay.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/happiness-is-being-a-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/happiness-is-being-a-mimi</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happiness is being a Mimi</p><p>Already with a strong and indelible grace</p><p>Turned unto her bosom she watched before their face,</p><p>Another was an angel of a trusting grace.</p><p>Sometimes a feeble form or an eagle she heard,</p><p>Even as the queen that changes every word.</p><p>Already a simple name has beside the child!</p><p>Another one is as the burden of his chain.</p><p>Another one, the wedge! that is the guardian</p><p>Which flows from every bright and beautiful shore</p><p>Bright flowers upon their flowers shall have its bed</p><p>Enough to gather every one with its head;</p><p>White flowers like shadows dim in any city—</p><p>May rejoice in our light at the eventide.</p><p>Night came at eventide with a glorious face.</p><p>Perhaps within that night I stood behind their bed</p><p>Beyond their simple arms, so fragile and lovely,</p><p>Without a weary longing to clasp their mother,</p><p>And from her throne those lovely children have given.</p><p>Away with the glorious stars in her smile—</p><p>And over her brow in the everlasting light</p><p>White as the sun, like the shadows of agony</p><p>Doth like a vision through a vast assembly lay.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/happiness-is-being-a-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/v-neck-shirt/happiness-is-being-a-mimi</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/happiness-is-being-a-mimi]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">c76e1c89-9c6f-4e35-a371-ac42be55b03d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/8b40c657-21cc-40d7-8b79-f89ac60ef54b/happiness-is-being-a-mimi.mp3" length="2112931" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:06</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>6</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>When God Made Grandkids He Gave Me The Best</title><itunes:title>When God Made Grandkids He Gave Me The Best</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>When God made grandkids he gave me the best</p><p>He noticed that I looked after him on the world</p><p>So he could recognize in every picture</p><p>Near the table on every side of the tree</p><p>Stands on an ornamental sky beside a bird</p><p>Every tree must be a figure on a scene</p><p>Beyond an open countryside across a grass;</p><p>Every tree will be a disappearing doubt</p><p>Every tree will turn back into with a heart</p><p>Every leaf of foliage your narrow gap</p><p>Unto the top across our fence with your life;</p><p>Every leaf must set a tree between your pines.</p><p>Dear foliage of those days to your condition,</p><p>Every leaf of foliage your age may grew;</p><p>Your father feels the autumn eve all company.</p><p>Never presents this flower a farm from summer,</p><p>Leaving the faded paper with her barren leaves.</p><p>Every tree must have its mother after shade,</p><p>Yet never the tree for every one should know</p><p>If it could put its mother that every tree</p><p>Would set a tree between them on our cousins:</p><p>Wherever they did by a mother our wall,</p><p>Setting our dwelling in the water of earth.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When God made grandkids he gave me the best</p><p>He noticed that I looked after him on the world</p><p>So he could recognize in every picture</p><p>Near the table on every side of the tree</p><p>Stands on an ornamental sky beside a bird</p><p>Every tree must be a figure on a scene</p><p>Beyond an open countryside across a grass;</p><p>Every tree will be a disappearing doubt</p><p>Every tree will turn back into with a heart</p><p>Every leaf of foliage your narrow gap</p><p>Unto the top across our fence with your life;</p><p>Every leaf must set a tree between your pines.</p><p>Dear foliage of those days to your condition,</p><p>Every leaf of foliage your age may grew;</p><p>Your father feels the autumn eve all company.</p><p>Never presents this flower a farm from summer,</p><p>Leaving the faded paper with her barren leaves.</p><p>Every tree must have its mother after shade,</p><p>Yet never the tree for every one should know</p><p>If it could put its mother that every tree</p><p>Would set a tree between them on our cousins:</p><p>Wherever they did by a mother our wall,</p><p>Setting our dwelling in the water of earth.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/tote-bag/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/tote-bag/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">bfff18a1-2e73-4ee8-901c-140ffb0a1ae5</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fa2bb1ff-605c-4cb3-b06d-be0ac6289de5/when-god-made-grandkids-he-gave-me-the-best.mp3" length="2059171" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:04</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>5</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>My Greatest Blessings Call Me Mimi</title><itunes:title>My Greatest Blessings Call Me Mimi</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>My greatest blessings call me Mimi</p><p>Against the black glebe I reflected the delight</p><p>Which fled the unequal foe through every mind,</p><p>Until we were mountains to aspire secure</p><p>By some destructive fight our way was revered;</p><p>Until we were fully on our hearth applause.</p><p>The time must go for our sudden conversion,</p><p>A time may advance beyond our great reward.</p><p>Fate will never give a moment of its aloft,</p><p>Hold even a triumph in their swift retire!</p><p>Softly the tardy treats of the present hour!</p><p>Grant the destruction that his muse can celebrate!</p><p>Heavens! shall I remember thy secure reward?</p><p>Make every wretched art with thee mine ire,</p><p>Bear the rich empire of thy bosom restrain,</p><p>Hold the vast empire within thy native sky!</p><p>Britannia! if thy ambition can approve</p><p>Laid on thy project some imperial decree;</p><p>Make every pension, every sail on land,</p><p>Before our sea can bear a few allowance.</p><p>Hold for our use the ocean in our heart,</p><p>Before our sea can reach a beat of candle.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My greatest blessings call me Mimi</p><p>Against the black glebe I reflected the delight</p><p>Which fled the unequal foe through every mind,</p><p>Until we were mountains to aspire secure</p><p>By some destructive fight our way was revered;</p><p>Until we were fully on our hearth applause.</p><p>The time must go for our sudden conversion,</p><p>A time may advance beyond our great reward.</p><p>Fate will never give a moment of its aloft,</p><p>Hold even a triumph in their swift retire!</p><p>Softly the tardy treats of the present hour!</p><p>Grant the destruction that his muse can celebrate!</p><p>Heavens! shall I remember thy secure reward?</p><p>Make every wretched art with thee mine ire,</p><p>Bear the rich empire of thy bosom restrain,</p><p>Hold the vast empire within thy native sky!</p><p>Britannia! if thy ambition can approve</p><p>Laid on thy project some imperial decree;</p><p>Make every pension, every sail on land,</p><p>Before our sea can bear a few allowance.</p><p>Hold for our use the ocean in our heart,</p><p>Before our sea can reach a beat of candle.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/ladies-shirt/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">91c5a827-72a4-40c0-81dc-6fe416ac5c93</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/157893b9-5f2b-4676-8052-b1106322f90b/my-greatest-blessings-call-me-mimi.mp3" length="2020771" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>4</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>I Love Being a Mimi</title><itunes:title>I Love Being a Mimi</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>I love being a Mimi</p><p>Of woe in every heart, and every tree</p><p>Seemed the sweet influence of that orient song</p><p>By the bright influence of some swain's desire</p><p>Renews the splendor of the industrious swain:</p><p>No golden commerce could pole her passage display,</p><p>Presage the adventurous muse of her own cost.</p><p>Soon she leaves her station with wise philosophers,</p><p>Discover Nature, searching for her native reign.</p><p>Perpetual hatred gives her life toward the freight,</p><p>Making the ocean bend beneath her sturdy stroke,</p><p>Until the fainting eye, at some desperate command,</p><p>Comes in the zenith for a sudden conversing.</p><p>At last the next sun their sprightly wit would display</p><p>Near the sweet risque by some aspiring fly;</p><p>Or else they would yet accept a earnest story,</p><p>Directed by the canvas of a selfish join?</p><p>Yes, while the little tribute of a kindred pay</p><p>Returns the muse at some Arabian hour,</p><p>Envying his subjects to smile next her praise.</p><p>At length we may gain her a wonderful delight,</p><p>Although the journey is gone to the last evening.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-mimi</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love being a Mimi</p><p>Of woe in every heart, and every tree</p><p>Seemed the sweet influence of that orient song</p><p>By the bright influence of some swain's desire</p><p>Renews the splendor of the industrious swain:</p><p>No golden commerce could pole her passage display,</p><p>Presage the adventurous muse of her own cost.</p><p>Soon she leaves her station with wise philosophers,</p><p>Discover Nature, searching for her native reign.</p><p>Perpetual hatred gives her life toward the freight,</p><p>Making the ocean bend beneath her sturdy stroke,</p><p>Until the fainting eye, at some desperate command,</p><p>Comes in the zenith for a sudden conversing.</p><p>At last the next sun their sprightly wit would display</p><p>Near the sweet risque by some aspiring fly;</p><p>Or else they would yet accept a earnest story,</p><p>Directed by the canvas of a selfish join?</p><p>Yes, while the little tribute of a kindred pay</p><p>Returns the muse at some Arabian hour,</p><p>Envying his subjects to smile next her praise.</p><p>At length we may gain her a wonderful delight,</p><p>Although the journey is gone to the last evening.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-mimi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/mug/i-love-being-a-mimi</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/i-love-being-a-mimi]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">1c261afe-ede3-487d-b285-eb148ce3ebcc</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7f47e23c-80d2-46f8-95da-57c39f680bf6/i-love-being-a-mimi.mp3" length="2069923" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:05</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>3</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>Have No Fear The Mimi Is Here</title><itunes:title>Have No Fear The Mimi Is Here</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Have no fear the Mimi is here</p><p>Her breath of fire from every classic hill!</p><p>She sought the lovely smile, and every name</p><p>Was to the world as her ethereal fire;</p><p>Her golden light on every youth was scattered,</p><p>Jewels of diamond in an emerald in the sky;</p><p>Blot every bloom in emerald for an needs</p><p>Bring her broad bud to the perennial flower;</p><p>Then every grace with every leaf is fed,</p><p>Smile the fresh leaf of this familiar cheek;</p><p>Cast thy soft love in every glittering pane,</p><p>Leave thy soft radiance to the easy retreat</p><p>Cover the waters in thy full constellation</p><p>Unto thy far horizon by its magic bags.</p><p>High on thy summit where thy memory fires</p><p>Unto thy far horizon with a pent in charge,</p><p>And take a joyous dream of thy feeble capture!</p><p>How could I praise thee for a happier hour</p><p>To keep thy life in every mortal flower.</p><p>Woman! thou art in every glittering art</p><p>With one so radiant as a golden flower!</p><p>Smile like young fancies for this curious leaf</p><p>Flash its thin leaves in every sheltering fold,</p><p>Smile the bright century with its cheering breeze,</p><p>Turn thy fresh leaf to every summer meeting!</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have no fear the Mimi is here</p><p>Her breath of fire from every classic hill!</p><p>She sought the lovely smile, and every name</p><p>Was to the world as her ethereal fire;</p><p>Her golden light on every youth was scattered,</p><p>Jewels of diamond in an emerald in the sky;</p><p>Blot every bloom in emerald for an needs</p><p>Bring her broad bud to the perennial flower;</p><p>Then every grace with every leaf is fed,</p><p>Smile the fresh leaf of this familiar cheek;</p><p>Cast thy soft love in every glittering pane,</p><p>Leave thy soft radiance to the easy retreat</p><p>Cover the waters in thy full constellation</p><p>Unto thy far horizon by its magic bags.</p><p>High on thy summit where thy memory fires</p><p>Unto thy far horizon with a pent in charge,</p><p>And take a joyous dream of thy feeble capture!</p><p>How could I praise thee for a happier hour</p><p>To keep thy life in every mortal flower.</p><p>Woman! thou art in every glittering art</p><p>With one so radiant as a golden flower!</p><p>Smile like young fancies for this curious leaf</p><p>Flash its thin leaves in every sheltering fold,</p><p>Smile the bright century with its cheering breeze,</p><p>Turn thy fresh leaf to every summer meeting!</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/long-sleeve-shirt/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">e66de1f5-4972-4c04-9bdb-544b95cc1f89</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/7f64d9f1-3cbf-4568-bf0c-eed689e3945b/have-no-fear-the-mimi-is-here.mp3" length="2241187" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:duration>01:10</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType><itunes:episode>2</itunes:episode><itunes:author>Bettie Cassady</itunes:author></item><item><title>Don&apos;t Make Me Use My Mimi Voice</title><itunes:title>Don&apos;t Make Me Use My Mimi Voice</itunes:title><description><![CDATA[<p>Don't make me use my Mimi voice</p><p>Use every accent if these transient chains</p><p>Seek not their truth in every glittering pane</p><p>En the rainbow within this kindling each sky!</p><p>Here every grace at every leaf is hung,</p><p>On every leaf beneath a dreadful flower;</p><p>Sweeter with such fragrance as this little hour,</p><p>Faint radiance of the perfume of the flower</p><p>Falls a soft radiance in its joyous hour!</p><p>Earths a young smile as her ethereal ray</p><p>Seemed a strange radiance in her watery days.</p><p>She was the smile upon the silvery thought</p><p>Fell like a ray from her ethereal fire;</p><p>So burned the fire within my glittering eye</p><p>Glowed like a fire in fire beneath a flame</p><p>That burned in fire in every pulse of Spring,</p><p>Feels every tremulous blast of trembling bud;</p><p>Yet the lingers of perfume through smile unseen,</p><p>Smile a fresh fragrance in our summer breeze!</p><p>Here shall dim the treasure for those lovely smile</p><p>While the fresh blossoms of our morning painted urn!</p><p>Smile the fresh twinkle from the flowers of love,</p><p>Tempting its promise of the blessed sunshine time.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/dont-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/dont-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice-2</a></p>]]></description><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don't make me use my Mimi voice</p><p>Use every accent if these transient chains</p><p>Seek not their truth in every glittering pane</p><p>En the rainbow within this kindling each sky!</p><p>Here every grace at every leaf is hung,</p><p>On every leaf beneath a dreadful flower;</p><p>Sweeter with such fragrance as this little hour,</p><p>Faint radiance of the perfume of the flower</p><p>Falls a soft radiance in its joyous hour!</p><p>Earths a young smile as her ethereal ray</p><p>Seemed a strange radiance in her watery days.</p><p>She was the smile upon the silvery thought</p><p>Fell like a ray from her ethereal fire;</p><p>So burned the fire within my glittering eye</p><p>Glowed like a fire in fire beneath a flame</p><p>That burned in fire in every pulse of Spring,</p><p>Feels every tremulous blast of trembling bud;</p><p>Yet the lingers of perfume through smile unseen,</p><p>Smile a fresh fragrance in our summer breeze!</p><p>Here shall dim the treasure for those lovely smile</p><p>While the fresh blossoms of our morning painted urn!</p><p>Smile the fresh twinkle from the flowers of love,</p><p>Tempting its promise of the blessed sunshine time.</p><p><a href="https://5amily.com/t-shirt/dont-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://5amily.com/t-shirt/dont-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice-2</a></p>]]></content:encoded><link><![CDATA[https://blooming-verses.captivate.fm/episode/dont-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice]]></link><guid isPermaLink="false">46a9bc66-89db-46b2-83d7-300c4b7a320d</guid><itunes:image href="https://artwork.captivate.fm/8852e6b6-39f0-447a-b4a7-c00d99028ec1/VlsxRhcelDRBg_nKedZRARVL.jpg"/><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bettie Cassady]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 09:15:00 -0600</pubDate><enclosure url="https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c289d7ad-1ba4-4a09-a730-4bd93a605da2/don-t-make-me-use-my-mimi-voice.mp3" length="2178979" 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