Shadows (Monday Poem)

 by Judith Nicholls

Stand with your back

to the shining sun;

watch you shadow

dance and run.

Stand and face

the shining sun;

look ahead--

your shadow's gone!

from Sing a Song of Seasons: 

A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters

illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

Candlewick Press, 2018

Some One (Monday Poem)

by Walter de la Mare

Some one came knocking 

At my wee small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure -- sure -- sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But nought there was a-stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whitling

While the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

 

 

from Sing a Song of Seasons: 

A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters

illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

Candlewick Press, 2018 

Insect (Monday Poem

 by Tony Mitton

Inspect

an insect

and you'll see

how perfect

it can be.

 

Listen,

and hear 

the tiny song

it sings,

 

as bits of rainbow

glisten

on its wings.

 

 

 

from Sing a Song of Seasons: 

A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters

illustrated by Frann Preston-Gannon

Candlewick Press, 2018 

What Do You Suppose? (Monday Poem)

 Anonymous

 

 

What do you suppose?

A bee sat on my nose.

Then what do you think?

He gave me a wink

And said, "I beg your pardon,

I thought you were the garden."

 

 

 

from Sing a Song of Seasons: 

A Nature Poem for Each Day of the Year

Selected by Fiona Waters

illustrated by Frann PReston-Gannon

Candlewick Press, 2018