Monday's Poem: If I Don't Have a Ball

If I Don't Have a Ball

I crinkle a paper

and that's not all.

I squish it;

I squash it;

A round, tight ball.

I kick it; it rolls

straight through the hole:

Chair legs;

Wide legs;

One for me! Goal!

                       Anne Knowles

Tuesday's Poem: With Nothing at All

With Nothing at All

I can have fun with nothing at all:

Skip, jump, or roll in a ball;

Hop, spin, or race down the hall;

Make up a story; make up a song;

Make up a cow fifty-feet long;

Make up a friend twenty-times strong;

Wonder if stars are hot or cold;

Wonder if circles like to be rolled;

Wonder if numbers do as they're told;

Duck waddle-waddle, or snail-slow crawl;

Seed sprout rise, or leaf twirly fall;

I can have fun with nothing at all.

                                        Anne Knowles

Monday's Poem: Big City Tea Party

Big City Tea Party

Tea Party!  Tea Party!

Box, pillows, bear;

Box is on the balcony;

Party's out there.

Box makes the table.

Pillows make the chairs.

Bear wears a happy smile;

I love my teddy bear.

Bear's brought a cookie.

I brought the tea.

I have an old tea set

A neighbor gave to me.

Tea pot lid is missing.

We only have one cup.

Bear and I don't mind at all.

We make what's missing up.

Our royal castle's in the sky

Seven stories high.

Our kingdom is the neighborhood

And pigeons that fly by.

We share a crumb of cookie

With pigeons when they rest.

They don't want tea like bear and me;

They're simply cookie guests.

Tea Party!  Tea Party!

Come and have some tea.

You're welcome to the party

With bear and birds and me.