Sweet Dreams

     I ride a painted pony

the one who has blue eyes

we gallop in the star light

across the midnight skies.

We're chasing falling stars

to capture and to keep

then dust them over children

in their beds to help them sleep.

So if you wake with star dust

twinkling in your eyes

say thanks to the blue eyed pony

who gallops across the skies.

     What helps you sleep at night?  Do you have a favorite blanket or stuffed animal?  Do you sleep with a teddy bear?  Have you heard stories about the sandman who carries his bag of sand around to sleeping boys and girls and 

tosses sand in their closed eyes to help them sleep?  That is what this poem is about-- catching falling stars and putting the star dust in children's eyes to give them good dreams.  It is all make-believe, but isn't that part of the fun?

     Today can you write your own poem about sleeping, dreaming or going to bed? Oh, I think today is a great day to think about having big dreams.  Happy May Day.