Poems

Here are two poems to remind us of summer …

Here is a Field                               

Here is a field
where dandelions grow.
where silver sails
when breezes blow.

Here is a field
where butterflies feed,
laying their eggs
on the nettles they need.

Here is a field
where rabbits may run
out of their burrows
and into the sun.

Here is a field
where I may lie
in gangling grass
and gaze at the sky.    poem © Celia Warren

This poem was first published in My First Oxford Book of Poems, compiled by John Foster, Oxford Universtiy Press, 2000

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SONG OF THE SEASIDE

One for a bucket,
Two for a spade,
Three for the castle
    Grandpa made.

Four for a deckchair,
Five for a towel,
Six for the crab
    that made me howl.

Seven for the sunshine,
Eight for the sky,
Nine for the kite
    we like to fly.

poem © Celia Warren

And here’s a poem to make your mouth water …

(Would you like to draw your own picture?)

CAKE-O-SAURUS

Why don’t we bake
a dinosaur cake
and call it Munchosaurus:

Give it horns
of ice-cream cones
and call it Crunchosaurus.

Why don’t we bake
a dinosaur cake
and call it Stickisaurus:

Add gingernut eyes
and buttercream thighs
and call it Bickisaurus.

Why don’t we bake
a dinosaur cake
and call it whatever we think:

Then let it cool
and eat it all
until it is extinct.

© Celia Warren

NOTE: All poems on this website © Celia Warren

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