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Polliwogs Poems - Poems about Polliwogs

Spring Sonata

...
Listen closely and hear spring’s beautiful sonata.
It comes to sweep the winter’s gloom away.
It is the cheerful singing of the robin
and the birds from the south returning
to greet the spl...

Categories: polliwogs, spring,
Form: Free verse

Thumbelina Is Safe At the Pond

...Thumbelina was the daintiest dancer at the meadow pond.
She had a pact with the polliwogs and frogs, a heavenly bond.
She danced in their weeds, and they warned her of danger.
She then helped thei...

Categories: polliwogs, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme

P Q R S T

...Prancing purple polliwogs playing prissily
Querying querulous quail quite quietly
Reviving romantic roosters respectfully
Sassy swooning swans sighted saucily
Tempting tenuous trickster trout tas...

Categories: polliwogs, animal,
Form: ABC

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Animals

...Animals
Animals love us, 
and we love them, 
So take action 
to save the same.
Big cats from the African savanna 
or Orangutans from the Borneo forests,
the wor...

Categories: polliwogs, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Dogs Eat Cats

...Dogs eat cats, cats eat rats 
Rats eat things that fall from bats
Bats eat bugs, bugs eat trees
Trees that fall on birds and bees

Birds and bees and bugs on logs
Logs and trees and polliwogs
...

Categories: polliwogs, humor,
Form: Rhyme

If the Looking Glass Looked

...Cutting squares out the verse
Pulling stanzas from stars
dreaming of cloud waterfalls
Polliwogs running upright with a slarp.slap slap
Connecting with the space inside
If it all works out in the...

Categories: polliwogs, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Kids and the Great Outdoors

...Beautiful wildflowers on the hillside gleam.
Children pluck the flowers there, and nearby is a stream.
Its waters with little polliwogs now teem!
Kids are splashing after them. How glad they seem!...

Categories: polliwogs, nature,
Form: Monorhyme

Poetic Parallels

...two sijo

Take note of the resemblance between maple seeds and tadpoles?
Ideas spin round like maple seeds seeking a spot to sprout; 
our minds are small ponds where agile tadpoles (like thoughts...

Categories: polliwogs, 11th grade, nature, poetry,
Form: Sijo

Sebastopol

...Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  Sebastopol 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  April/2016

Where
lighthouse 
rays

shine
on
seagull wings -

Where
the 
misty

morning 
dew -

beckon
...

Categories: polliwogs, beautiful, city, tribute,
Form: Rhyme

Timberland

...Wide the mirrored water stretched,
licking green upon the pointed pines, limbs sweeping low and cool.

The creek meandered, soft giggles escaping mossy rocks
where polliwogs swam, nearly, but not...

Categories: polliwogs, betrayal, crush, first love,
Form: Free verse

I Came Upon a Shimmering Pond

...I came upon a shimmering pond
And cast my line in deep
Set me down on the dock nearby
And dangled my aching feet

My mind goes back to earlier days
When in smaller ponds this boy did play
Wher...

Categories: polliwogs, change,
Form: Free verse

Remembering

...I am the baby who cried
"more peaches" and waited
the young girl with dirty feet
catching polliwogs beneath bated
sun
I am the shy teenager stealing a first kiss
shattered by disappointment
and reali...

Categories: polliwogs, memory,
Form: Free verse