The Second Ark (a poem for children)

there is a school for young children
known as the Second Ark
if I am ever a 4 year old again
I will request the Ark

the kids draw pictures
they cook, they sing and they count to ten in Spanish
they jump on a trampoline to help people
it's just a school but it looks like heaven

if I could graduate from the Ark
I would carry everything in my head
and bring it to the rest of the world

poem by Lee Crowell
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The Dog Whisperer

I busted loose from my chain today
busted loose
from my chain
my dog chased me up and down
up and down around suppertime

fill my bowl with rice and beans
it's a hootin' and hollerin' time
my dog's got a cat and he licks her clean
it's a hootin' and hollerin' time

lickin' and sniffin' her night and day
and the dog life world says it's okay
it's okay it's okay
lickin' and sniffin' is quite okay

I'm gonna show my dog
I'm gonna lift my leg
gonna show him I can do more than beg
and he'll whisper that he understands

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poem by Lee Crowell
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Learning Curve

yellow bus stroking the
curves
on a concrete highway

windows wide open grabbing air
for a field trip in an early May
heat blast

with very
short khakis spouting lean legs
the teacher's aide
led me down a stream along a shaded path

steeped in the backwoods element she
crouched barefoot in a pool
scooping crystal water with her cupped hands

what she couldn't get into her mouth spilled on
her nose and chin,
trickled down her chest

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poem by Lee Crowell
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