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Category Archives: Poem of the Day
Moonlight for Elspeth by Kate O’Neil
Leave a commentIf you could catch the full moon
and hold it in your hand,
would you want to keep it
for ‘moonlight-on-demand’?
Or would you throw it back again
and leave it in the sky
for everyone to marvel at
and do some dreaming by?
“Surprise Egg” by Kylie Covark & “Easter” by Louise McCarthy
Leave a commentSurprise Egg
Scritch scritch!
Scratch scratch!
This little egg’s about to hatch!
Quack quack!
Duck duck!
She’s made of chocolate!
What sweet luck!
Kylie Covark
Easter
I cross the road to Molly’s farm.
There is a sign nailed to a post:
Eggs for sale.
I buy a dozen.
I hear a rooster crow.
On the way home I trip and fall.
One egg is cracked and broken,
The others are saved.
On Sunday we celebrate Easter;
Soft boiled eggs for breakfast.
I see the Easter bunny has visited too!
Dark chocolate is my passion.
Life is good.
Louise McCarthy
THE EASTER EGG TREE by Jaz Stutley
Leave a commentTHE EASTER EGG TREE
Away in a corner
where nobody goes,
there is a secret
that nobody knows.
Each year at Easter
Mum, Dad and me,
we go to visit
the Easter egg tree.
Has that Easter bunny
used his hiding-place?
We search in the branches,
and all round the base.
He’s hopped through the paddocks
to our special tree
to leave lots of eggs there
for Mum, Dad and me.
Eggs red and yellow,
eggs blue and green;
that’s how we know
Easter bunny has been.
Yes, each year at Easter
Mum, Dad and me,
find Easter eggs in
the Easter egg tree.
This is a true story! I wrote the poem for my daughter. When she was
small we used to stay in the country each Easter – Jaz.
The Easter Hat Parade by Vanessa Proctor
Leave a comment2K has been busy
2K has had fun
making Easter bonnets
with Dad and with Mum.
We’ve spent many hours
cutting out flowers,
using cardboard and glue
and crepe paper too.
Some hats are like bunnies
with ears floppy and funny,
Others have eggs and chicks,
with colours all sunny.
So put on your hats,
tie up the bow.
Your magnificent creations
make a marvellous show.
Bilby Nose by Celia Berrell
Leave a commentThe Bilby’s cute-long
bunny ears
remind us Easter’s
almost here.
These experts
burrow in the ground
where grubs and roots
for food are found.
Their dainty
pinkly pointy snouts
are perfect probes
to sniff things out.
With squeaky snuffles
snorts and grunts,
they’d help us with those
Choc-Egg hunts!
Bilby Nose by Celia Berrell
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Library Book Dream by Louise McCarthy
Leave a commentA book with pages of words interlaced.
I read to you at bedtime, watch you drift to sleep.
I picture each scene how I like and wonder what you see.
A pause: too long, so quiet…
I nod – lost.
I have borrowed the sailing ship from this manuscript of adventure.
Where am I? Where are you?
I look for you and there you are – a loyal companion.
We travel together, though our dreams differ: supportive.
In the morning we return safe and sound with new-fangled ideas for life that we have borrowed from a book.
Words are weird by James Aitchison
Leave a commentWords are weird
My shoe has a tongue
but can’t talk.
All it can do is walk.
My nose has a bridge
you can’t cross.
Which leaves me at a loss.
My eyes have pupils
you can’t teach.
What’s the purpose of each?
My ears have two drums
you can’t play.
What kind of drums are they?
What weird things words are —
they have too
many meanings by far!
Grass Skirt by June Perkins
Leave a commentKilt clan patterns
Mother’s hands twisting string for homemade
video to keep tradition strong
Once made from plants now plastic too
Scratching identity from legs to ankles
Calling out for head dress and for beads
Bare feet beating dance on earth
Sway and swish
Past, present and future steps
Given by my mother to say
You are grown
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