Easter Egg Fun

A classroom full of children
Were given plastic eggs,
The teacher said 'twas homework
To fill them with their best.

'Something very special
Choose now, just as you will,
To tell us what is Easter
Go home and ponder well.'

The next day all were ready
Each egg so carefully held,
The children gladly beaming
Excitement barely quelled.

The first one had a peeping chicken
When she opened wide her egg,
With yellow daffodil,
'New life' she sweetly said.

The second held up bunny fluff,
The third a Cross of wood,
The fourth, a dusty broken stone,
'Cause all the Earth, it shook'.

The fifth, a pretty little hat
With ribbons, roses red,
Six, lisped, showing rusty nail,
'Look, thith ith why He bled'

The seventh had a wooly sheep,
'Cause Jesus is God's Lamb.'
The eighth held rich dark chocolate
But, it melted in his hand.

Number nine was quite excited
With a woven crown of thorns,
And ten somehow had lost his egg
So cried a bit, forlorn.

Egg eleven, was awful sticky
All stuffed with hot cross bun,
The twelth, a li'l heart cut out,
'See, this is Jesus' Love.'

Thirteen giggled, cheeky like,
'I gobbled so, but saved the foil,
And fourteen had some purple cloth,
'Just like the robe He wore.'

The fifteenth painted dark inside,
'For Friday's always black.'
Then sixteen had a swatch of rope,
'For the whips on Jesus' back.

Seventeen brought those jelly beans
Easter colors represent,
Eighteen had a palm leaf,
'Cause Preacher said it's Lent.'

Nineteen took a great big breath
And said 'Of coins I thought,
As Jesus was betrayed with them
And then my heart He bought.'

But the one that was perplexin'
With a hollow egg, at twenty,
Was Joey's whisper'. 'God died and then arose
'n' all the graves are empty.'

Soft Whispers from
Derry's Heart Poems © March 2009
Derry's Heart