Wednesday, October 9, 2019

"...A Pool Where a Kelpie Lived" - a poem for children

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com

“…A Pool Where a Kelpie Lived”

“A little below the bridge was a pool where a kelpie lived.”

-Sigrid Unset, Kristin Lavransdatter, p. 8

If you are blessed with a little back yard
The smallest of gardens, a bit of grass
Then you have pixies and fairies and sprites
They like you, but they’re awfully shy, you know

If in your garden there is a little pool
Even a dish of water for the cat
Then you have a tiny kelpie or two
(And they are much nicer than you’ve been told)

In flower and leaf and water and soft night air -
Oh, yes, there is sweet magic everywhere

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