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Tenants and Travelers: From Pond to Pasture—Incorporating poetry, especially my own, was a practice I began early in my teaching career. Fun for me, fun for my students, and a sneaky good way to double down on subjects and concepts.
Tenants and Travelers approaches living things from two biomes: the pond and the pasture. I felt the feature character presented in each poem through the prism of their own biome would be more meaningful, memorable, and relatable. The
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Tenants and Travelers From Pond to Pasture - Cathy Fleming
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Tenants and Travelers From Pond to Pasture
Cathy Fleming
Copyright © 2019 Cathy Fleming
All rights reserved
First Edition
NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING
320 Broad Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2019
ISBN 978-1-64096-553-9 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-64096-554-6 (Digital)
Printed in the United States of America
Table of Contents
The Pond
The Pasture
The Getaway
—Pond Fishing
Nightcrawlers
Waterlilies
Water Lilies: Did You Know?
Cattails by the Pond
WHO AM I?
Frogs and Toads
Can We Talk—About Turtles
Turtles: Did You Know
The Fuzzy Dozen
Ducks: Did You Know?
Water Spider
Water Spider
Spiders
Snakes—Ooh, Snakes!
Snakes: Did You Know
Uninterrupted Ants
ANTS: Fun Things to Know
ELPA (Egg, Larva, Pupa, Adult)
On Butterflies and Moths
Hare And There
My Constant, Cottontail
Rabbits and Hares: Did You Know?
A Hunting He Will Go
The Hawk: Did You Know?
Hibernation
Bears: Did You Know?
Let’s Go Owling: Owls
Owls: Did You Know
To my grandchildren: Matt, Sam, McKenna, Marlowe, Juliette, Trenton, and Liam. Then to all the students in University City Schools, St. Louis, Missouri, especially those who passed through the doors of Pershing Elementary School (my home, my family, my teacher).
Acknowledgments
Thank you to my family and friends for their staunch support and loving encouragement—you know who you are. Newman Publishing, with their team of experts, who have guided this project—as well as the talented artists who illustrate and bring ideas to beautiful imagery—are deeply appreciated.
The Pond
Sheltering, meeting place, shading, quenching, competing—
A great mixing bowl of—rippling, bubbling, splashing life—
interacting at a snail’s pace—Prevailing.
The Pasture
Grazing, satisfying—digging, crawling, chasing, climbing—
Food chain, strong, stronger, strongest—
growling, warning, purring life—
interacting fiercely—Who prevails?
The Getaway
—Pond Fishing
A Grandmother Memory
Pack the Rambler
, rods and reels
Night crawlers, the ideal bait.
Don the ball cap—today’s sun bonnet
Take your seat and
wait—
wait—
wait!
Mama’s patience, very slight,
But she could reel in—through the night!
Perch or catfish on the line—
Untangle hooks, and then divine
Where the fish are biting best.
Sweating brow, can of worms,
no talking, were the fishing terms.
and later we would rest!
Hands that fish and then prepare,
the meal that followed, with modest flare.
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