Autumn's Beginning

Happy Poetry Friday! Now that I'm back at school and things have settled down a little, I'm going to try to get back into this weekly routine.  Here's a perfect pick as we study the migration of the monarch to Mexico and anticpate the arrival of fall this weekend.

Autumn's Beginning

A monarch butterfly
quietly
perched
itself
upon
a
pumpkin.

Orange
on
orange

Autumn
came

officially

that
very
moment.

by Lee Bennett Hopkins
from Good Rhymes, Good Times
©2000, HarperTrophy

Sara Lewis Holmes has the roundup here.

photo credit: Magical Monarch Moment by flickr member creativity+