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Spanish Peaks

A kid loves a rhyme
like peanut butter loves jelly.
Like the button loves the belly.

A kid digs alliteration
like a dozer digs dirt,
gets a kick out of consonance

like a ball on a roll downhill.
A kid likes a simile, too,
especially if it sounds like a fart.

It’s grownups who forget
the joy of language arts,
learn fear of poetry.

But kids are no scaredy-cats.
They know verse is as fun
as balancing Jell-O on the tongue.

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John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Midnight Mind, Trampoline, and Flights.

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