Illustrations, free after various examples of picture postcards
© Joke van der Ark 2012
That’s why
Snatch looks everywhere,
there is no one out to play.
No other rabbit’s here,
I’ll be bored, why then stay?
He hops form here to there,
hops to an fro and back again.
What dull is it out here.
He turns, to him it’s plain,
no one is to come. He hesitates,
I’ll go and ask
why there’s no one here, he waits,
but then he goes because he trusts
he soon will know. Twice
he knocks, then slips into the burrow
and much to his surprise
he sees everyone is down below.
What a twit, how could he forget?
It’s neighbour’s birthday, that’s why
no one was outside. He’d bet
his friends already had
a lovely piece of carrot pie.
Rhyme 33