A Trio of Poems to Get you: Voting / Dreaming / Listening to Owls

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Linda at TeacherDance for Roundup. I've got a trio of poems for you today:
1. Election Day / Go Vote poem (first published in Scholastic's Storyworks magazine):

 Election Day
Sift through promises,replay interviews;
step inside the booth.Forget scripted speeches
and candy-wrapped slogans.Weigh again each pro
and con. Rememberthe teeming world,
its people who dreamof freedom —
so many deniedthe right to decide.
Read the names,imagine a future;
make the best choice.In the space between breaths
your voice is heardwithout a word.
- Irene Latham

2. A Halloween Poem (a revision of a poem I posted in August last year... time and distance helps!)

October Dreams

Inside October
waits a fieldof plump pumpkins
Inside a pumpkinnests a clutchof white seeds
Inside a seedechoes a breathof fresh hope
Inside hopeexists a worldof joined hands
Inside a handrests a spoonto scoop a pumpkin
Inside a pumpkinlives a lifetimeof Octobers
Inside Octobersleeps a childwith orange dreams.
- Irene Latham

3. The latest ArtSpeak: RED poem, after a (dapper) owl by Richard Jones. This is my second Richard Jones offering... the first was last week's "Night Swimming," about writing. Today's poem a pure fun, because that's what this little owl inspires in me! Thank you so much for reading. xo

When Dapper Owl Dons a Hat

he wants you to say,
look at that!
He wants you
to point, giggle,
perhaps even clap.

And if indeed
you point, giggle, clap,
that owl might even
croon for you.
Listen —

               thank-youuuuu
               thank-youuuuu

- Irene Latham