A poem by Mary Steele
From Anna's Summer Songs, a book of poems for children - interestingly, it was originally a book with illustrations and Swedish text by Lena Anderson, a lovely little lyric:
- Started this post five years ago, and apparently got distracted. Now I don't know what the other feature was.
FORGET-ME-NOT
Forget-me-notsThere are two features of the poem that struck me - the enjambment of the fifth line,
Have magic powers,
They make my rabbit
Dance for hours
On starlit nights.
He leaps and whirls
And jumps and twirls.
He kicks his heels
Above his ears.
I wish I heard
The tune he hears
For though I dance
With all my might
I never get
The steps quite right...
he says.
- Started this post five years ago, and apparently got distracted. Now I don't know what the other feature was.