Wednesday, 9 February 2011

Ostara Poems

Decorating Eggs
I take an egg
All shiny white
And then I dip
It out of sight.

I leave it there
Within the cup
Then after a minute
I pick it up.

And oh!
It's a lovely
Shade of green!
The prettiest Ostara egg
I've ever seen.


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Bunnies are brown
Bunnies are white
Bunnies are always
An Ostara delight.


Bunnies are cuddly
The large and the small.
But I like chocolate ones
The best of them all.


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I had an Ostara bunny,
One day she ran away.
I looked for her by moonlight.
I looked for her by day.
I found her in the meadow
With her babies 1, 2, 3.
So now I have four rabbit pets
To run and jump with me.


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Ostara Bunny
(Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)

Ostara bunny, soft and white
Hopping quickly out of sight.
Thank you for the eggs you bring
At Ostara we welcome spring.
Ostara Bunny, soft and white
Hopping quickly out of sight.


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Flowers
(Sung to the tune of “Pop! Goes the Weasel”)
All around the forest ground
There’s flowers everywhere.
There’s pink, yellow, and purple too.
Here’s one for you!


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Saying Farewell to Wintry spirits
by Anna Moura


Farewell to wintry spirits and friends;
On morrow we greet the spirits of spring.
Our blessings to thee as your way you wend;
And merry we’ll meet next winter again.


Blow out candle and say: Merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again!

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"The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings."
-   Joyce Kilmer, Spring

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Little Seeds
by Else Holmelund Minarik

Little seeds we sow in spring
growing while the robins sing,
give us carrots, peas and beans,
tomatoes, pumpkins, squash and greens.
And we pick them,
one and all,
through the summer,
through the fall,
Winter comes, then spring, and then
little seeds we sow again.

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2 comments:

  1. Lovely! It's so hard to find good stuff to use with the kids for the festivals, so thanks for this in plenty of time.

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  2. These are lovely! Thanks for sharing!

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