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Monday, March 23, 2020
DMC: "If I Were Small" by David McMullin
IF I WERE SMALL
If I were small, so very small
that stones were big and grass was tall,
I’d have the pill bug stop its crawl
to be my tiny basketball.
And we'd have fun. Oh, so much fun.
I’d toss him up. He’d roll, I’d run.
But when we saw the setting sun,
He’d crawl away – our game all done.
© 2020 David McMullin. All rights reserved.
TLD reader Tabatha Yeatts has challenged us to write a poem about a game (any kind). Click HERE for more details and to add your poem to the padlet. While some poems will be shared as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration this Friday, March 27th.
Oh my goodness, I LOVE the imagination in this poem, David! Pure whimsical delight. Well done!
ReplyDeleteHow fun! I only recently learned the name pillbug. We always called them roly-polies.
ReplyDeleteI always called them pill bugs myself, but when I wrote this I tried to use the more popular roly-poly. Clearly it didn't work out. Ha.
DeleteI love this poem David! Great fun!
ReplyDeleteHow fun, David! This is adorable and so well-written. Bravo!
ReplyDeleteVery imaginative! Sounds like fun :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this poem, and the imagination behind it!
ReplyDeleteSo. Much. Fun. I will never look at a pill bug the same way again. Thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteSimply wonderful imagination, David. My class raised pillbugs one year & they would have loved your poem. Fascinating creatures!
ReplyDeleteThank you everyone for the kind words.
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