Poetry from Tuesday's Storytime in Scarfe Room 1210

Here are the poems we worked with today (plus a few more favourites!)


Many come from the 1960s anthology, Reflection on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle .  Here is a link to a few of my favourite poems from that book that we read from today.

The other poem was the chant of tree names from a British Orff music record from the 1950s.

Here is a link to the YouTube site with the audio recording.

And here are the lyrics -- could we create something like this with BC tree and plant names? Perhaps we could include their more original names in Indigenous languages....

Chorus of voices:

Pear tree, pear tree
Apple tree, apple tree
Sycamore, sycamore
Bramble bush, bramble bush.

Pear tree, pear tree
Apple tree, apple tree
Plane tree, plane tree
Bramble bush, bramble bush –
Holly?
Laburnum.

Single voices: 

Crocus.
Narcissus.
Fritillary.
Primula vera.
Jasmine.
Japonica.

Chorus:

Walnut.
Sweet chestnut.

Single voices:

Magnolia.
Lobelia.

Chorus:

Willow herb, willow herb!

Single voice:

Daff-o-dil.

Chorus:

Blackthorn, buckthorn, hawthorn, poplar!
Deadly nightshade.
Winter heliotrope.
Saxifrage.
Goldenrod.
ROSE.