Ms. Laura

Poetry

 

Nine Mice on tiny tricycles
went riding on the ice.
They rode in spite of warning signs,
they rode despite advice.

 The signs were right, the ice was thin,
in half a trice, the mice fell in,
and from their chin down to their toes
those mice entirely froze.

Nine mindless mice, who paid the price,
are thawing slowly by the ice,
still sitting on their tricycles
…nine white and shiny micicles.

 

http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/poet_Jack_Perlutsky/Samplepoem'sjack%20Prelutsky.htm

 

 

 

Nine Mice

By Jack Prelutsky