A Frog in a Well Explains the World (Monday Poem)

by Alice Schertle

 

 

The world is round

    and deep

    and cool.

The bottom of the world's

    a pool

with just enough room

    for a frog alone.

The walls of the world

    are of stone on stone.

At the top of the world,

when I look up high,

    I can see a star

in a little round sky.

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012