Module 4 - Poetry Break #4a

Poetry Break #4a

Introduction: On a nice, fresh, spring day bring your class outside (make sure you have administration approval) for a breath of fresh air and a poetry break.

Move Over
by Lilian Moore

    Big
    burly
    bumblebee
    buzzing
    through the grass,
move over.

    Black and
    yellow
    clover rover,
let me pass.

    Fat and
    furry
    rummblebee
    loud on the
    wing
    let me
    hurry
    past
your string.

[From: Something New Begins: New and Selected Poems. By Lilian Moore, Atheneum, 1982.]

Extension: Have the class bring drawing pads, pencils, and something to color with; have them draw the bumblebee or something else if they’d like. Share another poem such as Spring Talk by David McCord.