Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Two Voice Poetry Book Draft 2

Butterfly
Flutter
                                            By
Flutter                                  Flutter
By
Butterflies                                
                                            Flutterbies
Our wings                           Our wings
Painted
                                            Fragile
Beautiful
We fly                                  We fly
Fluttering                      
Flittering                              Fluttering
Fluttering                             Flittering
                                            By
Floating
                                            Over grassy fields
Across river banks
                                        Through quiet forests
We fly                                We fly
On painted wings
We soar                              We soar
                                           On summer breeze
Away                                   Away
We will retreat
                                          When leaves
Are painted
                                       With Autumn's grace
We flutter
Flutter                              Flitter
Flitter                               Flutter
Flutter                              Flitter
Flutter                              Flutter
                                        By.


A Flower's Life
We are seeds
                                               Deep in the earth
Change                                   Change
We feel lighter
                                                Sunlight
We are free
                                                We feel rain
Falling out of the sky
We grow                                  We grow
                                                Tall
Reaching                                 Reaching
Higher
Change                                    Change
                                                 We bloom
Leaves
                                                 Green
Sky
                                                 Blue
Sun
                                                 Shine
Seasons
                                                 Change

The air                              The air
Is cold
The days                           The days
                                          Grow short
The leaves                         The leaves
Change
We wilt                                We wilt
                                            With the cold
It's time to go
                                           We say goodbye
To the deep blue sky
                                          to the tall tall trees
To the blades of grass
Goodbye
                                          Goodbye
Now we must die
                                           
But we'll come again
                                When the sun rays shine
And warms the earth
                                       For life again.


We Are Trees
Oh the things
                                        That we have seen
We have seen                 We have seen
Centuries
                                         Pass
Wars
                                         Come
Wars
                                          End
People                               People
Come
                                           And go
Time                                   Time
Passes
Leaves                                Leaves
                                            Change
The world
                                            Keeps turning
Changing
                                            Changing
Yet we remain                     Yet we remain
Add
                                             A ring
For every year                      For every year

We will be here
                                               Until the end
We fear                                   We fear   
To see much more    
                                                Come to pass
For time
                                                 As we said
Lasts and lasts                        Lasts and lasts
Beech
                                                Maple
Oak
                                                Ash
Birch
                                                Willow
Poplar
                                                Pine
We are trees                           We are trees
Growing
                                                Tall
Standing
                                                Still
Deciduous
                                                And Evergreen
As
                                                Time
Goes
                                                 On.

Raindrops
Down
                                           Down
Down
                                           We go
Towards the Earth
                                           From the sky
From the clouds
                                           To the ground
Down
                                            We
Go
SMASH
                                            On the rocks
SPLASH       
                                            In the stream
TAP                                  
                                            On the glass
We pour                               We pour
Ourselves
                                            Out
Covering             
                                            The ground
Quenching
                                            The dirt

We make puddles
                                         For yellow rain boots
Of children
To play                              To play
The sound we make
                                         On the roof
Makes many
                                          Want to sleep
But when thunder cracks
                                          And lightning strikes
They lay awake instead
It's raining                         It's raining
Cats
                                         And dogs
They say
But we beg to disagree  
We are raindrops             We are raindrops
Soaring
                                         Down
Down
                                         Down
We go.

Snowflakes
The air
                                                Is cold
We form
                                                So cold
We fall
                                                Still cold
A blanket
                                                Ice cold
We make
White                                       White
Our shapes
Unique                                     Unique
                                                 Look close
You'll see                                  You'll see
We blow
Across                                      Across
                                                 The sky
On wind
We soar                                    We soar
Until
                                                  We land
And melt
                                                  Or stay
Winter
                                   Is our season
A wonderland
                                   We make
For children
                                   We mean school is out
They cry
SNOW DAY                SNOW DAY
                                    Snow men
Igloos
                                    Forts
They make
Their angels
                                    Form around us
The sun                       The sun
Shines bright       
                                     We start to fade
We melt                         We melt
Away
                                      Away
Away
                                     We go
But we'll be back
                                    Some day
We are snowflakes      We are snowflakes
We cannot stay

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