looked better!
With grass on my mind, I give you two original poems—a “things to do” list poem and an acrostic—as well as a favorite poem on the subject by the great Valerie Worth.
THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE GRASS
Live on a hillside meadow.
Grow tall
and golden as summer sun.
Hide fluffy field mice
and a symphony of crickets.
Welcome wildflowers,
honeybees, and butterflies.
Drink the fallen rain.
Bend and sway
to the rhythm
of the wind
and dance.
Green carpets the ground,
Reaches over the hills, blankets the broad valley,
And across the wide prairie, stalks of tall golden grain
Sway in the wind
Singing the song of the plain.
grass
by Valerie Worth
Grass on the lawn
Says nothing:
Clipped, empty,
Quiet.
Grass in the fields
Whistles, slides,
casts up a foam
Of seeds,
Tangles itself
With leaves: hides
Whole rustling schools
Of mice.
Book Recommendation
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
Written by Valerie Worth
Illustrated by Natalie Babbitt
All the Small Poems and Fourteen More
Written by Valerie Worth
Illustrated by Natalie Babbitt
This wonderful poetry classic is a compilation of four of Worth’s earlier collections—Small Poems, More Small Poems, Still More Small Poems, and Small Poems Again—and it includes fourteen additional poems. Every elementary teacher should have a copy of this paperback book in her classroom collection.
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At Blue Rose Girls: Sticking with the "grass" theme, I have a poem by Robert Wrigley entitled Mowing--which is really about more than cutting a lawn.
Kelly Polark is doing the Poetry Friday Roundup this week.
6 comments:
Great poems, Elaine. I especially like "Things to do..."
I envy your nicely mowed lawn. We don't have any grass at the moment! DH killed everything because of weeds and is replanting.
Love these poems,especially "Things to Do . . ." The symphony of crickets is wonderful, and I love the image of the grass bending and swaying.
Bridget, Jama, and Toby--
Thanks for your comments. I'm reworking my "Things to Do" collection of poems. Grace Lin gave me a terrific idea. I've eliminated some of the original poems and written new ones. Now it's a more cohesive collection. I hope some editor will like it.
Happy mowing! And good luck getting your new (old become new, that is) collection published!!!
Oh, I love these. My favorite color is green. It's all because of the beautiful green grass and leaves on the trees in the spring and summer. Love it!
These are so great, Elaine! What I love about both your poems and Valerie's is the motion you see and share in the grass. It's not static at all, but wild, waving, dancing...lovely.
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