The Monarch's Progress - Avis Harley

Poetry
Poems with Wings
Wordsong, 2008
$16.95
32 pgs.
Rating: 3
Endpapers: Monarch orange

Different types of poetry (acrostic, limerick, couplet, concrete, haiku, triplet) create the forms for 18 poems about the life span of a monarch butterfly. Accompanying illustrations (by the poet) are simple, bright, and reveal more about the subject, as well as notes at the end that give more scientific information about each poem.

She cleverly uses ACROSTIC well, a great model to show kids:

Monarch Beginnings

No bigger than the head of a pin, though
Enough to house a lodger within. Oh!
What a drama about to begin!

Exquisite gem on a milkweed leaf – your
Gorgeous shell-life is all too brief, for
Growing inside is a caterpillar thief…

I really enjoyed this abecedarian poem, really well-done!:

Wintering Over

Amazing
Blazing
Clusters
Decorate
Entire
Forest
Groves.


Hanging
In
Jeweled
Kingdoms
Like
Magnificent
Native
Ornaments,
Patterns
Quicken
Remote
Slopes.

This
Unique,
Velvet-
Winged
X-odus
Yields
Zillions.