Monday, July 26, 2021

The Sandpiper (Monday Poem)

 by Frances M. Frost


At the edge of the tide
He stops to wonder,
Races throught
The lace of thunder.

On toothpick legs
Swift and brittle,
He runs and pipes
And his voice is little.

But small or not,
He has the notion
To outshout 
The Atlantic Ocean.



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







Monday, July 19, 2021

The Silver Road (Monday Poem)

by Hamish Hendry
 
 
Last night I saw a Silver Road
Go straight across the Sea;
And quick as I raced along the Shore,
That quick Road followed me.

It followed me all round the Bay,
Where small Waves danced in tune;
And at the end of the Silver Road
There hung a Silver Moon.

A large round Moon on a pale green Sky,
With a Pathway bright and broad;
Some night I shall bring that Silver Moon
Across that Silver Road!



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

Monday, July 12, 2021

At the Seaside (Monday Poem)

 by Robert Louis Stevenson


When I was down beside the sea
A wooden spade they gave to me
To dig the sandy shore.

My holes were empty like a cup,
In every hole the sea came up,
Till it could come no more.



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

Monday, July 5, 2021

A Dragonfly (Monday Poem)

 by Eleanor Farjeon



When the heat of the summer
Made drowsy the land,
A dragonfly came
And sat on my hand,
With its blue jointed body,
And wings like spun glass,
It lit on my fingers
As though they were grass.
 
 
 
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