Easter Candy Poems

In July, no air cooler will dissipate the heat.
I squeeze the bag, it squishes, like paste within my hand.
The chocolate eggs were perfect, the kind...

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            SPIRITS OF EASTERS PAST
 
On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate
Christ rising from the dead.
I...

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After the “egg” hunt,
Pretty brightly-wrapped candies
Rest in my basket. 
I liked the eggs much better,
Lacking a taste for sugar....

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In this commercial world we live in,                  ...

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January…new year, new me.
Met you and now I’m happy. 
We watched the ball drop and kissed at midnight.


My February Valentine
hearts and flowers because you’re mine
as...

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Past the salad fields of green,
With ciders flowing in between,
An island sits though out a-ways,
Of candy from the holidays.

They’re thrown away and tossed aside,
Without a...

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Not when you put cotton candy in our grapes
You might as well give it to a teacher,see what...

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Christmas has it's candy canes and chocolate Santa Claus doll
Easter with it's Peeps and jelly bird eggs can get a little dull
But do you recall...

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What's an Easter twofer?
Rose and Ted celebrate
Jesus first, then bunnies.
Bible story done, then
read the Sunday funnies.

What's an Easter twofer?
fancy hat Rose will wear,
new clothes, they...

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Another Easter spent
feasting on Jelly Bean Martinis,
sculpting butter lambs
with Nana’s mastiff Escort
snoring by tabletop fire.

Aunt Bea smoked lemongrass,
shading wooden eggs 
with Dappled Willow shrubs.

A whimsical...

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Little one I know you can't wait for Easter,                       you want candy eggs and...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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The eggs had been colored,
and scattered about

The baskets were hidden,
the children to shout…

“Was he here mom, was he here?”
they yell from upstairs

“Come down and find...

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Just for you
Easter Bunny I drew
Lovely multi-colored
Laughing faces, one after another
Yellow sun with orange rays

Blue, red and green stage
Every color of the spectrum seen
And my...

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A Child’s Christmas Prayer of Despair for a Hindu Saint
by Michael R. Burch

Santa Claus,
for Christmas, please,
don’t bring me toys, or games, or candy...
just... Santa, please,
I’m...

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