Poets United Midweek Motif ~ Children's Books

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Midweek Motif ~ Children's Books

Oh, to write for children!  Books in verse 

and nursery rhymes: Shakespeare and Carroll, 

Seuss and Stevenson, Angelou and so many 

others both classical and new.   Join them! 

Write a poem for a child: An actual child, you or someone you know as a child, a symbolic child ... any child.  

excerpt from MY FANCY    BY: Lewis Carroll 

. . . .

 

She boxed my ears this morning--

They tingled very much;

I own that I could wish her

A somewhat lighter touch;

And if you were to ask me how

Her charms might be improved,

I would not have them added to,

But just a few removed!

 

She has the bear's ethereal grace,

The bland hyena's laugh,

The footstep of the elephant,

The neck of the giraffe.

I love her still, believe me,

Though my heart its passion hides;

"She is all my fancy painted her,"

But, oh, how much besides!

"My Fancy" is reprinted from The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses. 

Spring and Fall   BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leáves like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! ás the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you wíll weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It ís the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.

Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985)

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