NATIONAL POETRY MONTH....Day Twelve

It’s Easter Sunday.  Happy Easter. 

Today’s poem I wrote took memories from my childhood combined with what is going on today.  I composed this from what it would be like if I were still eight years old in today’s world.  I generally do not compose rhyme poetry but decided the last few days to do so.  As a child my step-siblings and I use to search for eggs.  We had our colors too; mine green; my stepsister red and my stepbrother blue.  The one finding the most in the allotted time got a large chocolate egg or rabbit.  I never won.  I had hopes but by the time I thought I could my stepsister was to old for egg quest and it stopped altogether.  I use to think that more red or blue eggs were hidden and that’s why I didn’t win.  

The poets I read for today were the L poets;  Phillip Levine and a modern poet from Massachusetts named Thomas Lux.  

My three line thought popped into my head when I saw the plastic colored eggs I have.  If things were different they’d be filled with a small pack of jelly beans or pastel M&M’s to be given away.  Of course that is not happening.  So they remain where they are empty.  It triggered the thought that it’s the empty tomb that is important today.  The Lord has risen. Of course this is my personal opinion and thought. Hope you all are hanging in there.  

Until tomorrow....have a blessed Easter Sunday. 

Day 12....THREE LINE THOUGHT  

     Colored plastic eggs empty inside

        Like the tomb on Easter morning

           HE HAS RISEN

                  THE QUEST

          © Scottie-ann Murphy

Hidden Easter eggs I can not find

  The couch, the chairs I looked behind

Ever Easter morning it’s my yearly routine

To find the eggs that are colored green

My sister’s eggs are colored red

  A few sometimes hidden under the bed

My brother’s color of course is blue

  He’s always first to find more than two 

 Fifteen minutes only for the egg find quest

  I search with vigor and I’m full of zest

To finally become the winner for this year

 Then yell ‘hurray’ while at my siblings sneer

But hidden Easter eggs today, none do I see

Did Mr. Peter Cottontail just forget about 

        me? 

Or like the rest of us is he in a quarantine;

 Unable to do his Easter Bunny thing?

I guess the answer is no doubt a yes

So Happy Easter....I wish you the      

         very best