Don Mulford, Hibernation</head><body><center><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.com/p1.gif border=0 alt=Saviodsilva></center><hr color=3C00FF size=4><br><font size=4 face=arial><b><a href=4.htm>Don Mulford</a></b></font><br><center><img src=http://www.saviodsilva.net/poem/a/1.JPG border=0 alt=Poem></center><br><font size=3 face=arial><b>Hibernation</a></b></font></center><blockquote><blockquote><p align=left><font face=arial size=2><b><p>In the summer, bright hued flowers<br>Spread their petals to the sun,<br>And the bees sip all the nectar<br>From the blossoms, one by one.<br>Then the squirrels and the birds<br>Spend happy days up in the trees,<br>But the flies are such a nuisance in the summer!<br>But when summer’s warmth has faded<br>And November comes around,<br>All the pesky little insects<br>That in summer do abound,<br>Just fade into obscurity<br>As if they’d never been,<br>And I wonder, where do flies go in the winter?<br>I’ve talked to academics<br>And to theologians, too,<br>To the teachers and the preachers,<br>And a wise man from Peru,<br>But the answer coming from them <br>Is what you will tell me too!<br>No-one knows where all the flies go in the winter!<br>It’s such a simple question,<br>But I’ve heard no answer yet,<br>And it gets much more important now,<br>The older that I get.<br>So I must make this last appeal<br>My ignorance to ease,<br>Please tell me, where do flies go in the winter?<br>When my allotted time is over<br>And I stand at Heaven’s Gate,<br>And Saint Peter beckons to me<br>I’ll say, Please, Saint Peter, wait!.<br>E’er I enter heaven’s portals<br>This one question I must ask,<br>I implore you, where do flies go in the winter!</p></b></font></blockquote></blockquote><hr color=0000ca size=3><center><font size=2 face=arial><b><a href=http://www.isavo.net/poem/sk6.htm>This Poem's Index Page 1</a><br><a href=http://www.yensa.net/poem/sk6.htm>This Poem's Index 2</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com/poems.htm>Poetry Website</a><br><a href=http://www.saviodsilva.com>Saviodsilva</a><br><a href=http://www.isavo.com>Isavo Site</a></b></font></center><SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript SRC=http://www.saviodsilva.org/r/fantasy.js></SCRIPT></body></html>