Hare
Liz Brownlee
We see a man's face in the shadows on the moon. People in Africa, Egypt, China and India believe that the shadows are the outline of a hare.
Frog Dance
Jan Dean
Jan Dean
Come green up your skin and slime up your slime
it’s slip-slap hip-hop leap frog time!
Today we are jumping higher than high
Green green clouds in a blue blue sky.
Today we will swim like yellow birds fly
in a gulp and a blink of a big gold eye.
Come green up your skin and slime up your slime
it’s slip-slap hip-hop leap frog time!
In bright speckled suits we cut quite a dash
with a flick and a lick of a tongue like a lash.
When we dive in the river with a plip plop plash
frogspawn pollywog wriggle-bubble splash.
Come green up your skin and slime up your slime
it’s slip-slap hip-hop leap frog time!
With a flex of muscle and a beat of blood
in a heartbeat-pulse you can boogie from the mud
to dance in the moon by the lily-pad bud.
Bog life, frog life, feels so good!
Come green up your skin and slime up your slime
it’s slip-slap hip-hop leap frog time!
Slip-slap. Hip-hop. Leap. Frog. Time!
Moon Pebbles
Sue Hardy-Dawson
Here on the moon
We don’t bounce pebbles
They’d just spin upwards
Too fast
Too far
Over the moon’s sea
Comet birds scream colours
Fishing for stars
Here on the moon
Space tastes of coal dust
We swim on the surface
Too high
Too slow
Over the moon’s sea
Space ships dream of children
Sleeping below
Here on the moon
We can’t hear Moon shells
The sound of silence
Too pale
Too small
Under the moon’s sea
Stars wish on bright people
Hoping they fall
© Sue Hardy-Dawson 2010
A Poem That Begins Small
Roger Stevens
First of all there was nothing at all
Not even words like these
No trees, no birds, no flowers, no fields,
No land, no fish, no seas.
There weren’t any people to marvel at things
There was no life at all
And the whole of the all of the vast universe
Was the size of a ping-pong ball
There was so much stuff (a universe worth)
Compressed in that tiny place
That it all went BANG and the BANG was BIG
And it spread to fill up space
And from all that stuff expanding in space
There gradually grew great suns
And from the debris there grew planets and moons
And on one planet, Earth, life began
From a strange concoction of chemicals
From a lightning storms spark and fizz
And it’s why we can gaze in awe at the sky
And write down poems like thisWho Made the Mermaid?
Celia Warren
Who made the mermaid?
I, said the sea;
with a pinch of fish
and humanity.
I made her to grace
the waves and be
my little mermaid,
swimming free.
And is she happy?
Aye, said the sea;
she plays with the whale
and the manatee;
devouring oysters
as a treat;
the mermaid's as happy as a
fish with feet!
© Celia Warren 2010
Brilliant
Bernard Young
Today Mum called me brilliant
and that’s just how I feel
I’ll run a race
I’m bound to win
I’ll take up golf
Get a hole in one
Because today Mum called me brilliant
so that’s what I must be
I’ll paint a picture
A work of art
I’ll design a car
It’s sure to start
Because today Mum called me brilliant
and she always speaks the truth
I’ll write a song
It’ll be a hit
I’ll train a dog
It’ll stand and sit
Because today Mum called me brilliant
Yes, today Mum called me brilliant
Today Mum called me brilliant
So how am I feeling? BRILLIANT!
