Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Split Color Question Drum at Fern Trail
The group pattern is tap, pass, pause. When the drum’s blue ring slips loose after the sprinkle, no one forces the old rhythm. The ring marks the new meeting place, and the rebuilt pattern becomes tap, ring, pause.
Rhyme
Fern trail waited under patchwork light.
Three friends found the two-tone drum bright.
Tap, pass, pause—the pattern began.
Once round garden bell corner they ran.
At rain-chain corner, pairs crossed through:
Brandon with Aleea; Aralynn joined each pair in turn.
A blue ring slipped when the sprinkle came.
The old three-part pattern was not quite the same.
Because the ring fell, they stopped to see.
Aleea said, “Let it mark where we meet.”
Tap, ring, pause—the pattern grew.
Aralynn moved one basket; Brandon cleared the view.
Back at fern trail, the blue ring lay
beside one open nook at the end of the way.
The drum stayed still. The small space shone.
Someone could join, watch, or pause on their own.
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken cause-and-effect rhyme with tap, pass, pause, paired finger walking, and an open-space gesture.
Estimated spoken length: About 50 seconds.