Sweet Easter Dreams
Karyn Indursky
2013
Once upon a time
Peter Cottontail had a blue lagoon colored basket
full of plastic grass, decorated eggs,
chocolate bunnies, a candy carrot,
Reese's peanut butter cups and ring pops
to deliver to his Princess Tasha.
He hopped through yards
of jelly bean delights with
skittles falling from the Hershey chocolate sky
while his friend, Granny, helped
make skittle ice cream in a jelly bean cup
and put a cherry on top with a tinge of whipped cream.
Hopping down the Bunny Trail,
Granny and Peter Cottontail went to
see Piglet, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh, Rabbit, Mr. Owl, and the Gopher.
Granny went through the Chocolate Strawberry Forest
where vanilla and dark chocolate strawberries gingerly fell
into Rabbit's candy carrot basket and when she arrived,
she set his present in his beautiful vegetable garden
with a card sealed with a chocolate kiss sticker
and snuck into his kitchen to put his ice cream
into his freezer.
Peter Cottontail hopped through Cotton Candy Avenue
to put a small raspberry red woven basket at Piglet's door
with a card attached to it, "wishing you you a happy-hippity-hop Easter"
for when Piglet would look in she'd see a dancing toy M&M to play with
until their batteries died and she decided to eat her goodies.
Christopher Robin was taking a walk in the woods with Eeyore, and Mr. Owl
collecting daisies, daffodils, and roses for his Mom's Easter Day present
while Granny left their baskets on a blanket for them to eat, enjoy, and have
a competition to see how many licks it'd take to the get the center of a Ring Pop without cheating.
Granny and Peter Cottontail had to work as a team
to deliver Winnie the Pooh's gifts for his were extra heavy
and they borrowed Christopher Robin's little red wagon
to pull 5 overflowing pots of honey to his kitchen
and left his pots on his oak wood table where they
had painted Winnie the Pooh in Easter Colors.
The Gopher and Eeyore got their baskets set on the blanket
after Peter Cottontail went through The Hundred Acre Woods
and their twig brown baskets were stuffed with
rainbow decorated eggs, blue raspberry, watermelon, and strawberry ring pops, Reese's peanut butter cups,
miniature milk chocolate bunnies, and Jolly Rancher jelly beans
to enjoy their Easter-Friend-Picnic party.
Peter Cottontail and Granny hopped down a trail
of Easter grass with tulip petals leading the way
to Princess Tasha's castle where they gave her a special tierra
made from cherry Twizzlers to wear atop her Golden Graham hair
and a basket shaped like a crown
where they had it overflowing with
dark chocolate bunnies, Reese's peanut butter cups,
Barbie designed Easter eggs, skittles, and a friendship charm bracelet.
When Peter Cottontail and Granny were done,
they went back to Easter Land where their
Gummi bear friends were waiting
with a surprise party, which made their eyes fill with sparkling cider love,
friendship was flying like the American Flag, and the value of true friendship
sang their sweetest Easter Dreams.