My little brother, Sam, doesn’t think leprechauns are real – can you believe that
\nGreen, lucky, rainbows, pots of gold
\nHow can they not be real
\nAfter all, green is a color, rainbows shine in the sky, luck happens and gold can be put in pots
\nSo they must be real if all those things are
\nMaybe, in reality, humans aren’t real
\nAnd leprechauns are
\nI mean, it seems like they’re dependable, showing up every March and on cereal boxes the rest of the year
\nPeople, on the other hand, can be unpredictable, cancel plans, and go absent for years on end
\nLeprechauns spread joy; people can spread hate
\nIn fact, they can seem quite fake
\nSo can you really say leprechauns are not real if people are fake
\nI don’t see how Sam thinks leprechauns aren’t real
\nI guess you just have to believe<\/p>\n
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Adapted from the book\u00a0Three Ways to Trap a Leprechaun by Tara Lazar. p.1, line 1. My little brother, Sam, doesn’t think leprechauns are real – can you believe that Green, lucky, rainbows, pots of gold How can they not be real After all, green is a color, rainbows shine in the sky, luck happens and gold can be put in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441,5],"tags":[4880,5166,1806,3456,5167,5168],"class_list":["post-112794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","tag-2022-poetry-marathon","tag-book-inspired-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-leprechaun-poems","tag-whimsical-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113027,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112794\/revisions\/113027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPrompt from 2020 Poetry marathon. Hour 12.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"