Trying On A Mask - Poem

       Elaine Magliaro at Wild Rose Reader has lately been posting some of her mask poems, poems that when you write, you show the subject of the poem as the speaker.  See her blog for some brilliant small poems about many kinds of things that children would love. Here is one I wrote.


     Not quite, Almost, Now Real


I was kept warm, quite safe and fed
and then surprised to hear the call
to leave home because I wasn’t meant
to stay there very long at all.



I began to push, to dry and move
the side door open, then it gave a sigh
I wiggled and jiggled till I was out
And I became a butterfly.

And-Remember to check on the Poetry Tag Group shown at the right!  And find Jama Rattigan's blog post at Jama's Alphabet Soup  to discover so many Poetry sites in the kidlitosphere doing wonderful things!  Cathy, at Merely Day By Day, is joining Mary Lee, at A Year of Reading in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at The Poem Farm, and Donna at Mainely Write.  Plus Greg Pincus of Gotta Book has just published his first E-book, The Late Bird.  Now he's celebrating by giving one away.  See the blog that tells all about it  here

photo credit: Ajith (അജിത്ത്) via photopin cc