Poetry Samples from Poems for a Child's Heart
THE RAINBOW FAIRIES
Two little clouds one summer’s day
Went flying through the sky;
They went so fast they bumped their heads,
And both began to cry.
Old Father Sun looked out and said,
“Oh, never mind, my dears;
I’ll send my little fairy folk
To dry your falling tears.”
One fairy came in violet,
And one in indigo;
In blue, green, orange, red,
They made a pretty row.
They wiped the cloud tears all away,
And then from out the sky
Upon a line the sunbeams made
They hung their gowns to dry.
BE THE BEST
If you can’t be a pine
On the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley – but be
The best little scrub
By the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a bush,
Be a bit of the grass,
Doing something for somebody’s sake;
If you can’t be a muskie,
Then just be a bass –
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can’t all be captains,
Some have to be crew;
There’s something for all of us here;
There’s big work and little
For people to do,
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can’t be the highway,
Then just be a trail;
If you can’t be the sun, be a star;
It isn’t by size that you
Win or you fail –
Be the best of whatever you are!