Inspired by Mel Dixon's workshop on animal protagonists "Speak for the Worms", our young writers created these haiku in five minutes! We thought they were wonderfully wormy enough to share!
You’re a dirt crawler,
A mucky little slithery thing,
What an important creature you are
Rebecca
Squelchy slimy worms
Eating its own poo
Hiding from the birds
Kate
Those slimy, small, strange creatures,
We ignore them, we stomp on them,
What did they ever do to deserve that?
Kaylee
Pink worms wriggle
Tunnelling through the soil
Waiting for the rain
Grace
The rain will come each emerald spring
Worms will gather along the pavement
to greet the damp with playful writhing
Remy
Iridescent dance in dirt
Slither tiny snake
Escaping rain
Hannah
Slimy wimey, wormy slirmy,
Fighting for space in the expanse
Of dirt and leaves
Jessica
Delving, deep in soil
Gifting life to fading land
Soul without troubles
Amanda
Squirming writhing thing
Pink poking through fresh dark soil
The makers of Earth.
Bonnie
Squigly little strings
Long squirmy, pink
Squishy little things
Ari
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