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Spring<\/p>\n
Spring<\/p>\n
On every island in the CNMI spring has sprung<\/p>\n
All year long through all four seasons it is strung<\/p>\n
We only have two seasons, one rainy and one dry<\/p>\n
Our location near the Equator is the reason why<\/p>\n
Tall grass, weeds, and wildflowers have their fling<\/p>\n
All year-round flowers bloom diurnal and nocturnal<\/p>\n
To fences, poles, and houses vines and flowers cling<\/p>\n
Seeds spread by winds and birds each a fertile kernel<\/p>\n
Orchids prosper and bloom outside in coconut shells<\/p>\n
Bougainvillea blooms cover neighborhood fences<\/p>\n
Gardenia flowers emit their powerful scented smells<\/p>\n
Hundreds of wildflowers amaze one\u2019s visual senses<\/p>\n
Our Mariana islands remain perpetually vernal<\/p>\n
Our beauty writes its own eternally green journal.<\/p>\n
Easter<\/p>\n
This sonnet is for the time when ladies wore colorful hats<\/p>\n
called Easter bonnets to their church on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n
Straw baskets were filled with decorated colored hard boiled<\/p>\n
eggs, chocolate eggs, jellybeans, and chocolate rabbits:<\/p>\n
Chocolate rabbits are covered with multicolored foil<\/p>\n
What are those oval pastel things under their legs?<\/p>\n
They are the results of pots of water brought to a boil<\/p>\n
Colored and pastel decorated hard boiled chicken eggs.<\/p>\n
Since when do rabbits lay eggs that are not runny?<\/p>\n
Does a mother hen give birth to a little baby bunny?<\/p>\n
Of course eggs are classic symbols of birth and life<\/p>\n
Hard boiled they are eaten without a fork or knife<\/p>\n
No chocolate or hard candy for you in Lent you fasted<\/p>\n
As each little boy and girl in dreamy slumber sleeps<\/p>\n
the Easter egg hunt is over now a filled Easter basket<\/p>\n
with jellybeans, eggs, and yellow marshmallow peeps<\/p>\n
peel foil for chocolate, peel egg shells make egg salad<\/p>\n
sing about Easter bunnies and bonnets in an old ballad.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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