MONDAY'S CHILD #40

                       Illustration/ Ethel Mars- Maud Hunt Squire/ 1900's
                               From a Children's Garden of Verses


ANOTHER WONDERFUL ILLUSTRATION to prompt us to write a verse for children...from Monday's Child.

DREAM BOAT

I'm looking at the rolling waves,
ready to dive into a sea of dreams.
Other children are rocking their beds,
turning them into boats of the night.

Shiny fish jump very high,
trying to catch a bite of the stars.
If I catch one, I'll throw him back,
so he can dream with me another night.


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Dawn

DAWN IN GREENE COUNTY
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Starting as a dim crest of orange
along the range of hills,
dawn stirs slowly here in Greene County.
Galaxies of stars still claim the night,
then abruptly disappear
to melt into the sun.
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Crickets cease their chirrup
and box themselves in
against the day.
A bat that took flight
ahead of the cluster,
flies home
to grasp the cave's edge
as if it were in Transylvania.
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The cream of morning rises
to top the milky sky.
Soon enough it boils over
into another August day.
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from: TWO GHOSTS/ poems
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