Advanced Search

Contest Winners | Resources

<< previous poem | index | next poem>>

---

Bayou Bedtime

Winds sing
Lovely lullabies
Soft and deep
Cranes dance
A bayou ballet
Then everything stops
Goes silent
And stars glow
With the fireflies in the sky
A pale moon rises
Night begins.

---

Monica Davis, Age 12
Broadmoor Middle Magnet School
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Teacher: Dianne Edouard

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buy the book!

 
Home | Contest | Store | Get Involved | Poetry | Art Gallery | For Youth
For Educators | Regional Coordinators | Services | Press | About

---

River of Words^® · 2547 Eighth Street, 13B · Berkeley, CA 94710 USA
info@riverofwords.org · Phone:510-548-7636 · Fax:510-548-2095