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<strong>Poems</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Kids</strong> Animal Friends<br />
Bedtime at the Zoo<br />
Peter Webb<br />
Who reads the bedtime stories<br />
To the creatures at the zoo?<br />
Who roars them to each lion?<br />
Who speaks kangaroo?<br />
And if there were a reader,<br />
What story would they tell?<br />
Would a tale fit <strong>for</strong> a tiger<br />
Please a rhinoceros as well?<br />
Tell the tigers darkling tales<br />
Of jungles green as jade,<br />
And hungry eyes that glitter<br />
In the dusky twilit shade.<br />
The rhino would prefer to hear<br />
Of skies like clear blue glass,<br />
And great wide plains that undulate<br />
Like endless seas of grass.<br />
But might there be some creatures<br />
Who dream about the new?<br />
Of places <strong>for</strong>eign to them,<br />
And things they could not do?<br />
Perhaps the anaconda<br />
Who slithers softly in the dark,<br />
Would enjoy the sprightly stories<br />
Of songbirds like the lark.<br />
What do the two humped camels see,<br />
When they close their ebon eyes?<br />
The ice-bright land where penguins dwell?<br />
Their aurora-curtained skies?<br />
Do they call out, the soft koalas,<br />
High in eucalyptus trees<br />
For tales of fish and coral<br />
From Caribbean seas?<br />
But they have no storyteller,<br />
The camel, snake and bear.<br />
For at night the zoos are empty.<br />
No books, or readers there.<br />
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