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

a 

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?