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Chocolate Rabbits yan Flores Mayu
How Funny! Chocolate Rabbits Lay Eggs Not Runny
For when ladies wore colorful hats to church on Easter Sunday and called them Easter bonnets, straw baskets were filled with decorated and colored hard-boiled eggs, yellow marshmallow baby chicks, jelly bean eggs, and a chocolate rabbit. A sonnet on it.
Chocolate rabbits covered with colored foil
what are those pastel things under their legs?
the results of pots of water brought to a boil
decorated shades of pastel colored Easter eggs
since when do rabbits lay eggs that aren’t runny?
does a mother hen give birth to a little bunny?
eggs of course are symbols of birth and life
hard boiled they’re eaten without a fork or knife
no chocolate or hard candy during Lent you fasted
while each little boy and girl in slumber sleeps
the Easter egg hunt over you fill an Easter basket
with jelly bean eggs and yellow marshmallow peeps
peel back the foil peel the egg shells for egg salad
tell an Easter bunny about this Easter tradition ballad.
Author’s Note: Written April 21, 2019 on Easter Sunday morning before I even got out of bed as visions of Easter bunnies, chocolate eggs, and jelly beans ran through my head.
The Writes Rites Rights and Lefts of Spring
Dedicated to flores Mayu and all other May flowers that beautify our post-Super Typhoon Yutu landscape. Thanks for coming back.
Poets write about spring and fill thousands of books
its glorious growth warm Spring rains and thick mud
fresh dandelion greens picked taken home to cooks
a calf milks mother’s teats as mother cow chews her cud.
Rites of Spring are experienced world wide by youth
falling in love walking and holding hands in the rain
learning that love doesn’t always require the whole truth
at least for now there is always time later to explain.
Those Right turns in springtime the sunflower follows
practicing heliotropism as the sun makes its daily arcs
warming robin’s red breast and nests of barn swallows
as Johnny-jump-ups, crocus, and tulips flower in the park.
So what is left for Spring is revealed after April showers
all those inevitable and incredibly beautiful May flowers.
Author’s Note: Written 8:15am on April 30, 2019, the last day of April 2019.
