Olivia
The Caterpillar
Douglas Florian
The caterpillar’s not a cat.
It’s very small
And short and fat,
With those beady little eyes
Will never win a beauty prize.
The caterpillar’s brain is small-
It only knows to eat and crawl.
But for this creepy bug don’t cry,
It soon will be a butterfly.
This poem makes me happy. It makes me happy because it is saying that something that is very ugly and creepy turns into a beautiful thing such as a butterfly. The poem is from the National Geographic book of Animal Poetry, which includes poems about all sorts of creatures; noisy ones like pigs, roosters, wolves and donkeys, strange ones like the proboscis monkey and the moray eel, and many, many more.
Poetry speaks your soul joyfully.