The Village of Heritage   ( 2nd  of  5 – From The Heritage Edition Poems)   (Gen. 1: 1, 26, 27, 28   /   Eph. 3: 14, 15   /   Acts 17: 26    /   Matt. 13:  10–15)     The Village of Our Heritage Has A Great Cobblestone Bridge that Leads Into The Mountain   (Isa. 2: 2-4) the One With The Waterfall-Fountain   The Bridge Stretches Over Surging Seas It Is Very Steady In Strong Breeze & Any Carriage-Rides – With Time To See May Gaze Into Misty History …   … from The Village of Heritage Every Path Leads To That Bridge Yea, Every Trail & Lane In Village from Our College & Other’s Orphanage …   even From The Village Square All Roads Start From There Passing By Every Hut & House-Yardage even By Gated-Manors That Are Mortgaged   … The Heroic Village of Heritage Every Person There Displays Courage For Nearby Woods – Once Had Wolves-Savage! People Barred Doors Against Their Carnage   and Brave Dwellers Built A Broad-Barrage of Iron & Logs & Boulders So Large and Posted Keen-Eyed Heritage Guards All Around The Village Wards   The Prudent Village of Heritage … Also Prevents Spills & Soil Spoilage: from  Facts(Tories) & Printery-Published of False-Info  That Fools The Publics (& Blacksmiths Who Forge Race-Rubbish) …   for Horse-Drawn Wagons or Buggy’s Rampage are Quickly Carted Off To The Garbage ! & Residents Only Rummage Thru A Wreckage To Sort Real From Rust In Heritage …   And The Mill’s Sawdust & Drainage Is Taken To The Marsh Called ‘Vain’s Edge’ Filling Fog-Bogs w/Sand-Bags Kept-In-Check A Brief But Necessary Task of Re-Collect …   Oh! The Quaint Village of Heritage Celebrates With Daily Treks To Bridge ! That Leads Into The Mountain  (Isa. 2: 2-4) With The Clear Waterfall-Fountain   And The Market Shops In Our Village Opens Stalls With Onions, Potatoes & Cabbage Bread, Cheese, Roast-Rabbits & Radish for Those Who’ve Come Far & Are Famished (and Want Their Lineage Established) (Isa. 25: 6)   also Sliced Tomatoes & Pickled Relish Honey-Butter Spread On Meatpie Sandwich and Everyone Gets A Customary-Dish: A Stew of  Lamb &  Almonds & Fish   and Wine Drinking In Moderate-Dosage To Go Along With The Salad & Sausage In A Celebration We  Sod-Pottage  (Gen. 25: 29) In Our Village Hall & In Each Cottage We Celebrate Our Combined Heritage ! (by Keeping Our Birthright To The Bridge)   In The Celebration of Heritage Everyone Gets A Bowl of Spiced Porridge & Fruit-Preserves, Jellied, Jams – Also Omelets With Cold Water or Ale or Squeezed Pomegranates   Or Fresh Milk-Pails With Currants of Knowledge setting Amid Carefully Cultivated Foliage Served On Heirlooms of Silver Not Tarnished & Gold Cups With Healing Herbs As Garnish   Arranged On Copper Tables Burnished That The Village of Heritage Furnished Then We Plant & Put In True Pots, A Pledge to Help Adorn Every Resident’s Window Ledge   with A Colorful  Garland,  Posy  &  Corsage along With Memoirs Affixed In Decoupage In The Gaiety & Honoring of Heritage Where Only One’s Hello Is Held Hostage   The Village of All Heritage … Built On Future-Dreams Yet Still Vintage Thru Stones of Beauty Upon The Bridge Reaches Horizons Past Human’s Ridge   At The Village of All Heritage At Its Bridge – Hangs That Old Adage … ‘One Must Know Where You Come From To Know Where You’re Going To Come’   And If History Repeats Itself It’s A Tutor of What Should Be Kept or Left And What Our Forebears Paid In Passage In Tradition,  Culture  and  Heritage   for Our Children & Our Children’s Children from Our Ancestors and Those Before Them It’s Important To Know Our Own Origin and The Author – Who Had It Written …   and The Why & Where & When & How So Others Know Truth Then – As We Know Now It’s A Protection Against Poison-Pens & Plagues & Plagiarism, Phonies & Power-Crazed-Phase   & Prejudice & Mind-Prisons &  Maze But Humans In Heritage Can Find Their Place As Partners Preparing For Posterity Blue Ribbon Prize ?  Family Prosperity   Let The Children Play Sport of ‘Who Are We?’ & Dance Circle Games of ‘Identity’ & Friendly Kick Balls of Scrimmage & Play Tag & Peg-Games, Since Cribbage   and Hide & Seek – Each Other In Village Our Precious Offspring In Our Image They Are Both Our ‘Hope & Offering’ Arbitrage Grown From Farm–Flesh & Blood Acreage   and Pairs Walk Hand In Hand Engaged When Ready For Next-Heritage-Stage They Received Advice From Village-Sage As Entrusted Elders Turns Over The Page They’ve Provided Wise & Loving Parentage (So There’s No Hate Nor Harm … In Heritage)   No Room For Carved Idols or Rival-Fakers Nor Artifact-Tools of Traitors or Haters But From Antiquity & Throughout Every Age Here Are Heirlooms of Our Rich Heritage:   An Amethyst Brooch for Best Behavior A Jade-Tea-Set Plus Leaves Mint-Flavor Diamond Earrings To Hear In Angels’ Acres A Swan-Fan That Opens In Ivory-Favors   Bronze Lantern Made of Pure Light-Labor (and a Lamp, a ‘Lectric, & now a Laser) A Pearl Necklace Linking To All Neighbors Marble Mirror To Image Us In Our Maker   A Medallion From Mountain-Mover-Shaker Music Box With Miracle-Tunes of Nature A Rose – Pressed Between Holy Papers Love-Letters Written – Read Now & Later   A Portrait of Our Parents’ Prayers Rainbow Ribbons Sparkling Like Glaciers A Locke of Hair, Tress-Tied & Curl-Layered (there Was A Veil But It Vanished In Vapor) below The Bridge That Allows Belief-Tracers   Plowshares Made From Warrior’s Sabres (still digs thru dirt & danger like Razors) There’s A Treasure-Map With Us As Claimer & Mosaic of Mercy-Acts – Props In Theatre   A Priceless Tapestry Wove From Creator Glass-Chain of Command Kept Straight & Greater A 1st Century-Coin From First Engraver & Brass & Silver Horns & Expert Players   A Wheel In A Wheel Which Whips All Racers Sweet Songs of Sanctuary, We Sing & Savor Sapphire-Studded Cup To Salute Savior Original Pen-Works of  Orator-Praisers Seascapes & Star-Scenes of Best Painters   & Very Knowledge of Cobblestone Pavers Strong Suits of Armor That Made Us Braver Ceremonial Rites of Truth-Oath-Takers Life’s Recipe Served By “La’ Maitre”   A Millennial Clock Tick-Tocks – Time Savers Watch That Works Thru Time & Never Wavers & Mother’s Ring That Our Father Gave Her right over there in our little Village … in The Promised Land/Title/Deed – None Pillage   At The Village of Our Heritage    (Gen. 1: 26, 27) there’s A Perfect Garden – Pasturage    (Gen. 2: 8) but One Can Only Get There By The Bridge   (John 14: 6) thru Cobblestone Pilgrimage    (James 4: 10) that Leads Into The Great Mountain    (Isa. 2: 2-4) with The Clear Waterfall-Fountain … (John 4: 14   /   Rev. 7: 17   /   Rev. 22: 1)   The Bridge Stretches Over Smooth Seas A Solid Foundation – Paid-Toll Is Free So Carriage-Rides – With Time To See May Gaze Into Eternity …  …   … from The Humble Village of Heritage We Celebrate Our Bond With The Bridge Tho’ We Don’t  Think of It As A Bondage … to Us – That Would Be Sacrilege !   (and We’re Rid of That Wolf’s Howling-Rage) … in The Village of My Heritage …                            Written & © : 10/31/2011                               By:    The  MoonBee