Chocolate Easter Eggs are savored by all children but the joy is so fleeting and the only evidence of the event is some chocolate stained fingers and maybe some stains on a child's clothes and the waning evidence of a sugar high after too many eggs. But the knowledge and experience gained from reading or having been read too may last forever. Hope your Easter Bunny had a Gutenberg Hare laden with children's books as his Wingrabbit. Joyous Easter and hope you enjoy this poem I wrote 13 years ago.
The Easter Bunny and
the Easter Hare
During Easter week
the Easter Bunnies are so busy, free time is very rare,
Picking chocolate
eggs and rabbits, Easter grass and candies for children to share.
On Easter morn, hard
to find a doorstep without the signs that
an Easter Bunny has hopped there.
But in this chocolate
kingdom, a new suggestion voiced from the Gutenberg Hare,
“Fellow rabbits I do
not want to break tradition,
Never accuse me of
treason or sedition,
We all bring the joy
of Easter in a long anticipated rendition,
But in your sweet
baskets, perhaps a small welcome addition?”
Now rabbits may
squeak but they rarely complain or moan,
Yet from the
twitching tails and noses came a collective complaining tone,
“Our baskets are
overloaded; handles already cut through to the bone,
Any addition would be
too much weight to carry alone!”
The Gutenberg Hare
slowly raised his paw above the rabbits’ complaining din,
Even though a gentle,
studious hare, this was a dispute he must win,
For the joy of Easter
should not be only a chocolate web to spin.
Slowly, he bent over
into an open, non candied laden bin.
He lifted and put
into his Easter basket a book every child would want to read,
“Friend rabbits,
chocolate is divine; on it children will always draw a bead,
But to leave a good
book to read
Is like a farmer
planting the seeds,
Of morals, thoughts,
fables, or heroes to do good deeds,
Teachings and lessons
to show the way or teach how to lead.
Lucky is the child,
who has a large chocolate to savor and not waste,
While reading a book
for sweet knowledge is also a long lasting taste.”
And so with a voice
vote that closed the friendly debate,
For no rabbit on
Easter morn wished to be late,
To the lucky houses
chocolates and candy baskets left on porch or stair,
Followed by a basket
of books left by a Gutenberg Hare.
Michael P. Ridley
Aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
© 3/24/2005
