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This is my playground for poetry written for children with ideas and inspiration for writing your own poems. Come on in. Sit for a spell, have a cup of words to swirl around and make your own cup of poetry. I'm so glad you are here. I hope you'll find the Kingdom of Poetry a fun place to be.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

One Small Prayer

The lizard
scoots
across hot cement.

Small dragon
raises
on four ancient legs

Pumps
up and down
lizard push ups

surveys 
the scenery 
all around

before
racing
across hot rocks

he stops again
surveys
pumps

then

dashes

under


g
r
a
n
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t
e

r
o
c
k.

I had fun playing with this poem to make it a concrete poem.  Can you see how the words take the shape of a lizard? A lizard is a fairly easy animal to write a poem about because it has a long skinny tail.  Can you think of other animals with long tails?  Maybe a mouse, rat or opossum.  Can you write a poem about an animal and make it a concrete poem so that the poem takes the shape of the animal?

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