Easter Bouquet 2025: Easter, by Jeffrey Rensch

Jeffrey Rensch has been writing poetry for 50 years. Previous poems of his on Poems for Persons of Interest include "Being," "Carol of disarray," and "Thank you for the shivering," which won the Thanksgiving Poetry Contest last year.

Easter

I often found myself sad when my friends

Were celebrating. He was moving out,

The one that I loved best, and Easter was

The call for him to rise. It was good news

But I was miserable to see him go.

I felt abandoned in the selfishness

That only he could doctor and make right.

By the time that I walked our neighborhood,

He had packed and departed with no note,

No memo but...

The sense he was still here

Lifted me in my nonsensical strut

Past ladies beautiful in flowered hats

And children eating candy on the lawn.

My enemies saluted me. My friend

Absent but present held me in his hand.