spring has sprung

JELLY BEAN SOUP

We're camping out,
What a lucky group.
We're going to dine
On jelly bean soup.

We'll cook those beans
Till they're red hot.
Add M&Ms
To fill up the pot.

We'll eat that soup
And when we're through,
We'll have our tasty
Marshmallow stew.

We'll pick our teeth
With a Tootsie Roll.
Tomorrow it's
Chocolate casserole!
--Grandpa Tucker
Copyright ©1998 Bob Tucker

Meeting the Easter Bunny
by Rowena Bennett, 1930

On Easter morn at early dawn
before the cocks were crowing
I met a bob-tail bunnykin
and asked where he was going.
"Tis in the house and out the house
a-tispy, tipsy-toeing,
Tis round the house and 'bout the house
a-lighlty I am going."
"But what is that of every hue
you carry in your basket?"
"Tis eggs of gold and eggs of blue;
I wonder that you ask it.

"Tis chocolate eggs and bonbon eggs
and eggs of red and gray,
For every child in every house
on bonny Easter day."
He perked his ears and winked his eye
and twitched his little nose;
He shook his tail -- what tail he had --
and stood up on his toes.
"I must be gone before the sun;
the east is growing gray;
Tis almost time for bells to chime." --
So he hippety-hopped away.



Meticulous (What a WORD!)
(MUH TICK YOU LUS)

Isn't a hen meticulous,
To make those eggs without a muss?
She must be a careful strainer.
To get them in that neat container

Before you eat eggs, cook them well.
I found a raw one in its shell.
I opened it so I could see--
What do you know? The yoke's on me!
--Grandpa Tucker
Copyright ©1997 Bob Tucker

For more great Easter/Spring poems, stories and songs visit
http://http://www.night.net/easter/e-poems.html-ssi