Easter Bunny and the Easter Hare

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