April sprouts with little joys
And fades gently the same way
I'm glad I'm a fool
Proudly watching others as well
Love to watch them laugh
When an unexpected surprise
Makes them happy and glee
Friends requesting to join pranks
Eagerly beckoning to take part
Spinning funny tales to tell
Stealing chalks and powdering
Just to have loads of fun
Hiding and throwing on others
Filling old and new ink pens
And saving just for that one day
Shaving crayons and colouring
Clean steam ironed white shirts
Being restless to be free waiting
For intervals and lunch hour
And as the bell rings by four
School will be over for the day
On April Fools Day
It's a bad day if something
Went wrong on April Fools Day
And it all seems like a dream
As I lay awake thinking of
April Fools Day
Merlyn Alexander: I hail from Nagercoil, had my schooling and college there and did my post-graduation in Botany. Surrounded by nature all around our district with tall coconut trees fringed sea shores, beginning of the Western Ghats, paddy fields and coconut grove, rubber plantations, with some red cliff valleys and scattered mountainous terrain, I feel blessed that nature has lots to offer for my poems. I'm an ardent lover of nature. Other than writing my hobbies include painting, craft, travelling, music, reading, and cooking. I'm a blogger and I have a cookery blog. I would love to publish a cookery book someday. My collection of poems in a book. Gimme some time.