O dear!

 

The girl dares:

her hands and feet

are in the air

instead of

on the handlebars

and pedals

 

Mama worries

and papa sighs,

“You’re going to fall!”

The girl smiles

and cycles away.

She’s busy.

 

The post has to be

brought around

Her cart is filled up

with letters and cards

of dogs and cats,

but also with candles

 

and cakes for happy

occasions and good

wishes to friends.

And last but not least

the fifty poems that

her granny wrote.

Illustrations, free after various examples of picture postcards

© Joke van der Ark 2012

 

Rhyme  30