Like the first,
the last day of April
is a curious one.
They both bookend all the other days,
yet one is welcoming them,
whilst the other bids them a find ‘adieu!’
You, may not realise
that April held such a surprise
as it did –
it may have been carefully hid.
Or it might have been a month
of no newsworthy events at all –
maybe.
Call it what you will (still ‘April’ methinks)
April has been one that we will remember
long after…
thingummy…
has gone.
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April The Twenty-Ninth
arrived with a plomb.
I was a lert;
others were, variously,
a droit, a fraid, or a miable.
Disregarding all that,
April The Twenty-Ninth was,
variously, wet, dry, stormy, calm,
an irritant, a balm,
hot, cold, young, old
and liable to amuse, confuse
and leave us all wondering how and why
a day like this could call itself anything other
than a day of ease…
or bother.
April The Twenty-Eighth
has been a day.
too far.
We drove in the car;
stopped off at a bar;
listened to Eleventh Earl of Mar
(by Genesis);
invented Radar (again);
travelled much too far;
drank a pint of cider vinegar from a jam jar;
boxed up some shopping in a Spar(
relayed our local road surface
in two-dimensional tar;
relocated to Zanzibar;
and then walked back to England
for a cup of char.
So, nothing out of the unusual.
April the Twenty-Seventh
arrived with a fanfare (or funfair)
of trumpets;
followed by tea and crumpets;
and, lastly, a soupçon of something sweet – just to keep it neat.
A day when chimneys weep,
and town criers cry;
when the cost of ascending mountain paths is particularly steep,
and a rugby ball can but try.
A day when swallows swallow swiftly,
and a toad will natter to a Jack of all trades;
when a bright colour fades,
and beige is just the study of brown.
A day that begins and ends,
with bits in the middle,
hey diddle diddle don’t play upon that violin;
beguine the piece from where you left off,
and, ‘soft, what light through yonder window breaks – it is Juliet’,
and, soon, she is the Moon.
April The Twenty-Fifth
A dull day,
then a bright day;
with both accompanied by a fresh breeze;
fresh enough to freeze
the bones from a dull man,
or a bright one.
Every day is like this,
or unlike this.
Differing in various ways,
it’s a daze.
April The Twenty-Fifth
a day just like the rest,
now, where did I put my old string vest?
April The Twenty-Fourth – A Travel Guide
April The Twenty-Fourth
“Set forth!”
And so we did.
With no idea where to.
we went North – wrong;
South, East, West;
all were the same,
none were the best;
so we tried all the points of the compass in-between;
directions we had;
you should have seen us,
lost at the scene of the crime;
four idiots in search of a rhyme.
April the Twenty-Fourth,
was not the day for us to set forth,
it showed us our worth,
as we trudged the earth;
at least we still had our mirth.
April The Twenty-Third:
Shakespeare was born;
Shakespeare died;
people laughed,
people cried;
some came in,
others went outside;
many went to seek,
whilst a few did hide;
Haven’t you heard
that April Twenty-Third
is, was, and shall be…
or not –
depending on how you look at things.
The 22nd day of April –
I knew there would be a catch,
there is always a catch:
catch, match, hatch, dispatch:
a batch of rhyming things – how weird;
but, then again, quite the norm.
although I don’t have to inform
that
I am in form.
Formed from the clay of prehistoric pre-hysteric swamps,
I am only just a man
who can
(when the mood takes him)
rhyme a frying pan
with a partisan.
Then again, most people can
do that –
it’s just that they choose not to.
April The Twentieth?
20p for a cup of tea?
It was a long time ago,
four shillings to me;
four bob;
and before that it was cheaper still –
2d, tuppence for a cuppa,
6d, sixpence for a fish supper,
a farthing for a pint of grog,
And April wasn’t called April then,
it was ‘Springe!’
but it had to be changed;
it broke a hinge
and was soon rearranged.
So, what can today teach us?
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