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.





10 comments:

  1. Oh my goodness, I LOVE the imagination in this poem, David! Pure whimsical delight. Well done!

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  2. How fun! I only recently learned the name pillbug. We always called them roly-polies.

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    1. I 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.

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  3. I love this poem David! Great fun!

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  4. How fun, David! This is adorable and so well-written. Bravo!

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  5. Very imaginative! Sounds like fun :-)

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  6. I love this poem, and the imagination behind it!

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  7. So. Much. Fun. I will never look at a pill bug the same way again. Thank you! :)

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  8. Simply wonderful imagination, David. My class raised pillbugs one year & they would have loved your poem. Fascinating creatures!

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  9. Thank you everyone for the kind words.

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