My Name (Monday Poem)

by Lee Bennett Hopkins

 

 

I wrote my name on the sidewalk

But the rain washed it away.

 

I wrote my name on my hand

But the soap washed it away.

 

I wrote my name on the birthday card

I gave to Mother today

 

And there it will stay

For mother never throws

 

ANYTHING

 

of mine away.

 

 

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

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012