Psst!
I’ve got special powers!
Do you promise not to tell?
My powers are a secret;
Lean in and listen well.
I can open any door,
And answer any, ‘Why?’
I can travel back
In time and space,
And sometimes even fly.
I’ve got every super power
That a kid could ever need.
And you can have them too,
My friend,
If you just sit and read
Good Morning
Here is a link to the 2019 book week site.
The theme this year is “Reading is my Secret Power”
https://www.cbca.org.au/cbca-book-week
Have a read.
What can you write to promote Book Week?
Please share the poems each day in as many ways as you can.
Send in poems this week to
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
Thankyou
Jeanie
Shine Moon
Rats race to the moon for the biggest piece of cheese
Fat rats fly on upward on a perilous lunar mission
Flying on rocketing clouds – their tails stiff in the breeze
They no not what will come of their loony decision.
Earth’s plagued by starving rats begging food to eat
A fragile globe is spoiled – killed for meat of beasts.
Ratus ratus moves to the moon in a rocket ship fleet
Hoping science will provide more than cheese for feasts.
…
Only one man lives on the moon – one Mister Scribbly Dibbler
He plays a mystery moony tune – on a silvery harmonica
Snorts some moonshine whiskey; what a rhymey riddler
His origins remembered from forbears in Thessalonica.
Mr Scribble scribbles a riddle deep inside a crater –
Isn’t science fun? Will we see you later?
Before I’d heard,
Before I knew,
That the moon was far away –
Too far to get to in one day,
“Impossible!” I heard you say –
I had thought,
Before I knew –
(I was ready to explore)
That I would fetch a piece of moon,
And keep it to adore.
You see I’d noticed, very often,
Or at least I’d understood,
Others must have done the same,
And so I thought I could –
Piece by piece they’d take it down,
Then build it up again,
Then take it down and build it up –
Again and again and again.
Moon-talk
Moon, creamy white stone,
precious . . . Stick with the legends –
better at a distance.
My litany could go on –
I don’t want to visit,
take a machine-ride against gravity
brain-open.
But if I change my mind
Moon won’t have any
say in it.
©Katherine Gallagher
(Published in The Eye’s Circle, Rigmarole Press)
Moon Zoom
