Category: Children’s Poetry
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The Floral Clock by Betty J. Beam
(a children’s poem) A giant clock grows on the ground In a leafy park-land bower, It lies against a grassy mound Where hydro transformers tower. The turbines make a humming sound As water provides the power. And power makes the hands go ’round As bright blossoms bloom the hour, In winter snow, no one’s around…
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A Cow and Ice Cream by Betty J. Beam
(a children’s poem) Laura Secord Laura Secord, by the record Of the conflict of eighteen-twelve, Walked twenty miles through wood and stream, Queenston – Beaverdams, right on beam! Surprise Attack! was her one theme. A forewarned, forearmed British team Thwarted the American scheme! Some people vow she drove a cow, Others are quick to deny it.…
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Brock’s Monument by Betty J. Beam
(a children’s poem) I climbed up Brock’s Monument With a leap, a skip, a hop. I climbed up Brock’s Monument From the bottom to the top. I climbed up Brock’s Monument And I did it without one stop. BUT — Two hundred and thirty-five steps And I’m ready to drop! General Brock rode Alfred On…