Crabbity

                                     Carmen Browne

MONDAYS CHILD

http://childrensverse.blogspot.com/2011/05/mondays-child-46.html

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CRABBITY

(A Poem for Children)

Crabbity, Crabbity, wave your claws.

I'm in my world, you're in yours.

You breathe water, I breathe air,

I'm up here and you're down there.

Crabbity, Crabbity, is it cool

Way down there in your little pool?

Do you sometimes swim to big dark caves

Way. way under the rolling waves?

Crabbity, Crabbity, do you wish

That you were a little silvery fish?

Or do you wish you could leave the sea

And be a little boy like me?

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CASUAL BLEND.

The cathedral shadows stretched their length

Along the wooden pews,

And all about was painted

In grey and muted hues.

The voices of the visitors

Were hushed, somber and low;

Only the stained glass windows

Had a pale ethereal glow.

And then I turned a corner

And found this bright display!

The corner saved for children

When they chanced to come this way.

Bright chairs, bright rug, a colour feast,

Almost a mini-riot!

All among the sanctity

And the order and the quiet.

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