1. Free Verse Poetry

2. FOG
The fog comes on little cat feet.   It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
–Carl Sandburg

3. Sleeping Bag It’s so cold outside, I’m getting dressed inside
my sleeping bag.
I wriggle, scoootch,
scrunch, and jiggle. Flop.
Front flips, back flips –
I’m a caterpillar in a cozy cloth cocoon
that zips.
–Kristine O’Connell George
From Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems

4. The Drum Daddy says the world Is a drum Tight and hard And I told him
I’m gonna beat out my own rhythm.
–Nikki Giovanni
From Spin a Soft Black Song: Poems for Children

5. Chairs by Valerie Worth
Seem To Sit Down On Themselves, almost as if They were people, Some fat, Some thin; Settled comfortably, On their own seats, Some even stretch out their arms Rest
Chairs by Valerie Worth