Hawkins Hollow Nursery Rhymes
Clover Gate Sound Braid
Child-facing question: Can three friends rebuild a backward refrain, discover the real watering question, and stop with part of the pattern honestly unfinished? Dominant anchor: Hum → tok → tik; reveal → pour → listen becomes listen → pour → reveal. Cast: Lex makes the reed hum and later supports the watering cup. Alice Mole makes the wooden tok, checks the dry edge, and never wears glasses. Aralynn Fox makes the pebble tik, asks the real question, and guides the pour. Lillian and Zylar were considered as available, but the named trio already completes the exact three-voice braid and three-step refrain.
Rhyme
The Pattern That Stopped in Time
A spinner folded open at maple hollow
while berry landing stayed unseen.
Lex breathed through one hollow reed: hum.
Alice tapped wood once: tok.
Aralynn clicked one smooth pebble: tik.
Three voices braided through the air.
The refrain arrived back to front:
Reveal—pour—listen.
They tried the words in that order.
The bright spinner point led away.
At the shiny stopping place,
no prepared garden marks could stay.
“Is the question where the spinner points,”
Aralynn asked, “or where water can show
a pattern without washing over
the tiny seedling below?”
The real order turned the refrain:
Listen—pour—reveal.
Alice checked the drier edge.
Lex carried the plain watering cup.
They returned to clover gate.
Lex supported the cup with both hands.
Aralynn guided one narrow pour.
Alice watched the seedling stay dry.
Water darkened one leaf and one stem,
then half of a curved wing.
The remaining marks stayed pale and unfinished;
no extra pour completed the thing.
Hum—tok—tik.
The three sounds stopped with the water.
One leaf, one stem, half a wing—
an honest ending after rain.
About This Rhyme
Performance style: Spoken three-voice sound braid with optional hum, tap, click, reverse, listen, pour, and reveal gestures.
Estimated spoken length: About 95 seconds.
Ways to Join In
- Braid reed hum, wooden tok, and pebble tik.
- Say reveal, pour, listen, then rebuild it as listen, pour, reveal.
- Stop the watering after one leaf, one stem, and half a wing.