Jack O' Hare Meets Saint Francis of Assisi

+October 4th is the date of the day
while Jack O' Hare hopped away
Today is the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi
and Jack stopped to eat a fresh Kiwi
Someone from New Zealand has been around
and left this kiwi on the ground.
Jack stopped in front of Saint Francis' statue
and said, This is not Saint Matthew.
No it's Saint Francis Patron Saint of Animals
and not Hannibal O' Hare worst of the cannibals.
In this grotto of blue and white
serving as a place full of light
a Saint George had built this lovely place
where daily Jack will begin his race
and Saint Christopher added to this place so fair
a statue of Francis with his head bald and bare
here birds and animals gather
to be with this saint rather
than be elsewhere
ditto- Jack O' Hare!


-A poem written by Dracul Van Helsing
On the Feast Day of Saint Francis of Assisi
October 4th 2010.

Note: The grotto was built in my back yard by my dad George. Who built it modelled on the temple grottoes he saw in Greece when he visited there back in 1991. Last year for Father's Day 2009 I bought my dad a 3 foot concrete statue of St. Francis of Assisi- one of my dad's favourite saints. This statue was put in the grotto. Saint Francis of Assisi is the Patron Saint of Animals and I've often observed birds and squirrels and also Jack O' Hare pause and seemingly meditate in front of Saint Francis' statue as if they can sense Saint Francis' presence there- something of which we humans are unaware.