Poetry Friday -- Oldies and a Newbie

OLDIES:

Thank you to the now-forgotten PF bloggers who turned me on to these books!

How could I not have these new-to-me oldies by 

Marilyn Singers and Joyce Sidman in my collection?

How to Cross a Pond: Poems About Water

Meandering

Something in water loves

the curve

the bend

the zigzag

the swerve...

Footprints on the Roof: Poems About the Earth

Summer Solstice

Amid the scent of roses

and the lolling hum of bees

comes a cloud scudding briefly across the sun

or a slightly pointed breeze

to remind you that the earth has turned again

and in a long slow wink

the nights will grow

the days will shrink...

Meow Ruff: A Story in Concrete Poetry

The subtitle (A Story in Concrete Poetry) doesn't do this book justice.

You can't imagine it until you see it. 

The concrete poetry is every single part of every illustration on every page. 

Plus it tells a story. 

Amazing.

I'd love to share the poem that is the grass, 

but it goes on for SEVENTEEN glorious pages! 

Here are a few of the clouds:

just

a tiny puff,

a swirl of frosting--

cloud

plump 

bright dome

of sugary white

sky-muffin

large

white steamy

bread loaves rising

in he sun's bright heat,

a billowing batch 

of cumulus.

AND HERE'S THE NEWBIE:

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Tall Tales to Read Together

My 5th graders still LOVE these You Read To Me, I'll Read to You books! 

And now they'll learn about common and unusual tall tales while performing poetry? 

Win-Win!!

Davy Crockett

I'm Davy Crockett, frontier king,

A man who can do anything.

My story starts right at my birth:

A comet carried me to Earth.

It hit a hill in Tennessee,

And guess what happened? Out came me!

Jama has the Poetry Friday roundup this week at Jama's Alphabet Soup.