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  • Three Poets 

  • People write poems to share what they see.

  • They want us to feel the joy or sadness that they feel.

  • The following three poets come from two countries,

  • the United States and the United Kingdom.

  • However, the language they  use is the same. English!

  • Michael Rosen is a British  children's book writer and poet

  • He enjoys writing poetry and  reading it aloud with his children

  • Michael Rosen and his daughter are eating at a table one day.

  • A raisin "escapes."

  • It seems to run away from its jar!

  • A Dangerous Raisin

  • (but my daughter Elsie is helpful) by Michael Rosen

  • A raisin has escaped from the raisin jar.

  • It's whooshing across the  table like a shooting star.

  • Now, it's leaping in the air like a kangaroo.

  • "Look out Dad, it's coming for YOU!"

  • Michael Rosen writes very creative poems.

  • His poem "Colour" encourages children to be creative, too.

  • Colour Dvivichaeskosen 

  • Take a brush: the sky is green

  • the grass is blue

  • you are purple

  • the house is silver the sun  is black

  • the river is gold

  • the world has changed.

  • Did you do that?

  • Aileen Fisher was an award-winning American children's poet,

  • book writer, and playwright.

  • She loved nature

  • and liked to go hiking and mountain climbing.

  • Do you like grasshoppers and beetles?

  • Aileen Fisher loved to write about insects.

  • But I Wonder ... by Aileen Fisher 

  • The crickets in the thickets,

  • and the katydids in trees,

  • and ants on plants,

  • and butterflies, and ladybugs and bees

  • don't smell with little noses

  • but with feelers, if you please.

  • They get along quite nicely,

  • but I wonder how they sneeze.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson was a famous  Scottish poet and book writer

  • who lived in the 1800s.

  • He wrote many books,

  • including the famous Treasure Island.

  • Do you notice how winter days are  short

  • and summer days are long?

  • Robert Louis Stevenson noticed it, too

  • and wrote about it in his poem

  • "Bed in Summer."

  • Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 

  • In winter I get up at night

  • And dress by yellow candle-light,

  • In summer, quite the other way,

  • I have to go to bed by day.

  • I have to go to bed and see the birds still hopping on the tree,  

  • Or hear the grown-up people's feet

  • still going past me in the street.

  • And does it not seem hard to you,

  • When all the sky is clear and blue,

  • And I should like so much to play,

  • To have to go to bed by day?

Three Poets 

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