April is National Poetry Month. I didn’t know that. (Thanks Donna) This is the first poem I ever had to memorize. We learned it in Kindergarten and I still remember it. It was the first “grown up” poem I learned about (not Mary had a Little Lamb or something just for kids) and I remember being very impressed by that.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894)
I remember 2 little girls practicing the National Anthem and H-A-LL-o-W-EE-N upstairs in the dark. Thanks, Margaret Martin.
And then there was “On the faraway Island of Salamasond”….
“….Yertle the Turtle was king of the pond. It was a nice little pond. It was clean, it was neat…” I can still do most of Yertle and I wasn’t even the one trying to memorize it :)
Love it! MOTA, can we get more of Salamasond?
…The water was warm, there was plenty to eat. The turtles had everything turtles might need, and they were all happy, quite happy indeed.”
They were…till Yertle, the King of them all,
Decided the kingdom he ruled was too small.