Rabbits thrive beneath our sweet-potato vines, quite the cozy retreat~
free flowers, fresh veggies, and rent so cheap they’ll never leave their suite.
small town rabbit hash
kentucky's hidden gem
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Velvet ears twitch—spring! Cotton tails vanish laughing through pastel morning.
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Fingers of pale light
creep across the sleeping field~
rabbits, half-shadows,
hesitate between two worlds,
then vanish like a wish
Today I’m grateful for rabbits
I often wonder if they were created…
to remind us life is meant to be simple…
and it is us who make it complicated…
Do you remember years ago,
the mystery so profound?
that frightful day the rabbits came to town.
I'm sorry. I didn't see you.
Were you not around?
to feel the chill of when the rabbits came to town.
They were quieter than mice.
You couldn't hear a sound -
or did you hear it when those rabbits came to town?
Once, I was really something
a man of some renown -
but that was before the rabbits came to town.
What was it you were saying -
I owe you fifty crown?
I would pay you gladly, but the rabbits came to town.
Some say I went rabbit hunting.
Some say they put me in the ground,
that I'd met the business end of when rabbits come to town.
Now, no one can ever find me.
No, I can never be found,
ever since that day the rabbits came to town.
All rabbits chased out of their holes,
Snakes now make their burrows their own:
Their venom, their flight it controls.
All rabbits chased out of their holes.
How to scare out the snakes, their goals?
The snakes not worried, as they moan.
All rabbits chased out of their holes,
Snakes now make their burrows their homes.
Today I’m thankful for rabbits…
I learned a valuable lesson from rabbits
when I was just a boy:
How to leap into each new adventure
with a blend of enthusiasm…and joy.
Conejo Conejito Tango (Bunny Rabbit Tango)
The mesmerizing twilight dims
across a lake a warm breeze skims
Buck, the handsome rabbit drinks,
he has no doe; his love life stinks.
He stares at his reflection, sighs
when suddenly, his long ears rise
he hears a low, soft rustle near
he stands straight up, tries not to leer
but in the gloaming, gold and green
a gorgeous hare, a beauty queen!
With one ear up, the other folds
her peek-a-boo is flirty, bold.
She holds his gaze and lifts her chin,
he charges forward, she leaps to spin
and drops back down, in perfect pose
she lifts her paws to box his nose.
The tango music fills their veins,
the wind blows out their bunny manes
they pivot, leap and promenade
in moon-streaked shadow, cooling shade.
The forward cross, the ocho, turn
there is no step they need to learn
the side secada, quick advance
they both were born to dance this dance.
The dance complete, he falls asleep
she hops away, his snores are deep
She looks back in fondness, glad
she chose this buck to be a dad.
Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.
Chef rabbit’s specialty was lovely, marvelous cabbage-carrot stew.
One year there was a drought, and he did not know what to do.
No cabbage anywhere around, okay, maybe he could scrounge up two.
He substituted lettuce, and it was tastier, on a scale, twenty-two.
Three Rabbits gather
Below the driveway
they sit and ponder
When to go inside
To search for their food
Three patches of plants
They eye the bushes
Two rabbits enjoying
Eating the new plants
They run off to hide
Until the next day
All the plants were new
The bushes were new
Now both plants and bushes
Look crooked and thin
They are ruined
By the three rabbits
gardner
hates Beatrix Potter
rabbits
He wanted to date Helga in the worst way.
She had heard nothing of him.
What do you do for a living? She asked him.
I flip rabbits.
What does that mean?
He showed her, flipping two out of his sack onto their heads.
They gave him mean looks and hopped off.
One of them was limping.
Is there a need for that? Helga asked him.
“Not yet, but I am hoping there will be.”
She decided to date him based on his optimism.
And because she was a rescuer of idiots.
Keeping rabbits
After the German army surrendered, life was tough
the army had employed many to do road work and
repairing bridges, the allies had bombed.
With freedom of movement to roam in the night
followed theft of food items like the man who
stormed into a bakery waving a rusty Mauser gun
stealing bread; the coal depot needed security
guards as did the sausage producer.
The police force was reduced, and many officers had been
fired since they had been Nazi sympathizers during
the war of occupation; mind, many trickled back
in uniform when trespasses were overlooked.
Of serious crimes, there was one who assaulted women
going home late, knocking them down and stealing
underwear, which back then was a bombastic affair
yet an intimate garment; the newspaper reporting
the case wrote, ladies' items had been stolen
In our time of need, my mother’s brother gave her
two white rabbits, the rabbits soon became many
sweet bunnies, and before we knew the flat was full.
A lady, from the posh part of town, bought the rabbits
her action had not been charitable, she was later
seen wearing a white fur coat.
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