A SIX YEAR OLD BOY WON A PHOTO CONTEST and I thought, "Hmm very nice. Probably mainly taken by his parents". Then I read what he said when they interviewed him:
"I love how the trees seem to eat the fence, pushing up the ground and taking over."

That tree is eating the fence, isn't it?

What a great topic, kids' spontaneous poetry.

A favorite from my family: My cousin Dan, about five years old at the time, is with his father and his uncle, his father's and my mother's brother, a big guy with a gruff voice. Dan is babbling along, talking as he likes to do (he's a stand-up comic now). He won't shut up. My uncle booms, "Hey Dan, ever hear of 'Hang it on a nail'?" Dan squeaks back without blinking: "No, but I heard of 'Singin' in the rain'!"

No idea what he was saying. Pure music.

Alicia has a bunch of these; didn't she just give us a recent one somewhere in DG? Anyway I hope she'll tell them herself, because she'll do it better than I would. Also, if anyone has her Peter & The Wolf poem, you might post it, that's a great example of child poetry turned into adult poetry.

"The Wolf is in the music." Yes, it is.

Chris

Happily complying with Chris's suggestion, I'll put up a link to Alicia's poem:
http://www.english.ufl.edu/subtropic...ings_poem.html

Thank you Maryann.

Alicia, that's superb!

Janet