April 21, 2018

Greta Geriguis (age 5)

SWEET CHERRIES

cherry berry tree
first they are yellow
then they are red
you eat them
and then they are dead

but you spit out the pit
and it grows again
and then you eat them all over again

from 2018 Rattle Young Poets Anthology

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Why do you like to write poetry?

Greta Geriguis: “I like to write, and I like the sound of rhyming words.”

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