POEM: MAY WORDPLAY
This is my attempt at wordplaying about the meaning of May, which is the challenge on this week’s CPC Friday Fling.
MAY WORDPLAY
They say April showers
make May flowers
but I say they make a cake.
Mix April showers
with May flour
and bake it.
It is May!
Mother may I
go outside to play?
Yes, Maybelle, you may!
Back in the day,
May Day was a gay day.
young folks danced around the maypole.
But today, if you took a poll
even a Pole
would say his goal
On May Day
is not to play
on the Maypole
He fears it might take its toll
on his ol’
soul.
Further back in the day
of wild Massachusetts Bay,
Massasoit had power
in every Wampanaug bower.
When someone spotted the Mayflower
Massy plucked a May flower
hoping to win them over
with flower power.
Copyright May 2nd 2013 RGD
Looks like we were thinking along the same lines at the beginning. So funny because I hadn’t read your poem yet before writing mine. I love how you included history in yours. Always so very creative. I love it!