Why Grasshopper Wants to Meet the Moon (poem)
Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Jone Rush MacCulloch for our last Roundup of National Poetry Month. (It flew by, didn't it??)
Today's ArtSpeak: Animals poem features a grasshopper! I wrote quite a few drafts for this one, with different angles and ideas... and along the way, I did a little research. One thing I learned is that grasshoppers have existed longer than the dinosaurs! Here are the particulars:
" Modern-day grasshoppers descend from ancient ancestors that lived long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The fossil record shows that primitive grasshoppers first appeared during the Carboniferous period, more than 300 million years ago. Most ancient grasshoppers are preserved as fossils, although grasshopper nymphs (the second stage in the grasshopper lifestyle after the initial egg phase) are occasionally found in amber."
You can read the whole article at Thought Co.
And here's my poem! (Sadly, their dino-history didn't make it into this version of the poem.) Thanks so much for reading.
Why Grasshopper Wants to Meet the Moon
Sunhopper knows
afternoon
will be over soon—
one must leap,
reach
h a n g on—
for sky is where
dreams bloom.
- Irene Latham
