Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Patchwork Garden Marker at Ribbon Meadow
The opposites are step and stop, draw and erase, and near and wide. The extra patch does not become clutter; it becomes Zylar’s space-keeper role, leaving room to change the final arrangement.
Rhyme
Four paths came down from butterfly height.
No line formed in silver light.
At Carlisle porch: step, then stop.
Feet drew drops along the walk.
Aralynn stepped. Haylee brushed.
Emmitt paused. The old path hushed.
Draw it forward. Erase behind.
No wet trail stayed for feet to find.
Zylar found one extra patch.
“Space keeper” was the perfect match.
Near could change. Wide could stay.
The marker led to ribbon meadow that day.
One cloth square and three rings lay.
Four flat pieces to put away.
Side by side on meadow green,
they made one lantern shape—no light within.
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken opposites-motion rhyme with step-stop, draw-erase, and flat-shape placement.
Estimated spoken length: About 50 seconds.