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The
Easter Parade
What shall I wear for the
Easter Parade?
A dress that’s the color of marmalade With a border embroidered in light blue cornflowers Like the edge of a meadow after spring showers And a matching hat round as a top you can spin And elastic to hold it on under my chin And brand-new shoes whiter than newly-poured cream With heart-shaped, golden buckles that gleam; And I’ll carry a small purse of butterfly blue With a penny for me and a penny for you To buy us both glasses of cold lemonade When we walk, hand in hand, in the Easter Parade. -William Jay Smith |
5 comments:
And to you too, my dear Pat...!
What a sweet poem that is...!
A VERY HAPPY EASTER TO YOU AND YOUR DEAR FAMILY, SWEET PAT!!!!
Naomi: thank you and a happy Passover to you.
The poem reminds me when as a small girl I went out with my friends and the Maypole - dressed in our Sunday best complete with straw bonnet and a new purse which I left somewhere in the neighbourhood whilst dancing round the Maypole.
can't believe you mentioned the maypole! we used to do that too - and then, there were the easter frocks, the gloves, matching bag and shoes -- dear goodness! those were the days my friend - we thought they'd never end! ;)
happy whatever you celebrate this weekend! ;)
Gypsywoman: did you have
'The Sermons'?
They happened one Sunday in summer and everybody wore new clothes. I wish I could remember the significance of it.
Thank you Pat I haven't heard the Easter Parade in years/ Granny Clake used to read it to me when I was a very little one. (She wasn't my granny everyone called her granny, ahh days when people had respect)
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