Talking In Their Sleep - Poem

Flowers grow from small, feather-like seeds when winter snows are over.

The grass feels sorry for the trees and flowers.

Plants may look dead in the winter, but they'll be back in the spring.

Apple trees sleep throughout the winter.

Papi is going to shoot my piano recital with his video camera.

Toby plans to shoot baskets with his friend Tom after school.

Look at the small shoot of asparagus coming out of the ground.

Emma is going to shoot her bow and arrow at the archery meet.

They hide in a seed the wind has sown.

They are covered with gray moss.

Their branches droop.

They appear dead but they're alive.

The apple tree.

The apple tree, the grass, and the flower.

The winter's blanket of snow.

A tree leaf, a blade of grass, and a flower's eye.

To explain that trees, grass, and flowers can talk

To prove that all plants die when cold weather comes

To convince readers that gray moss grows on trees

To entertain readers with a poem about sleeping plants

Because the tree is so much taller than the grass

Because the grass is covered over with snow

Because it can't see the blades of grass

Because the tree thinks the blades of grass have died