When you said Hoo

A Children's Poem

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What would you do if when you talked you said,“Hoo”— 
If your words were replaced by the sounds owl’s do?

How could you ask for snacks or toys
When what comes from your mouth is just animal noise?

You might wake from a nap and be ready to play
But then “hoot hoot hoo” is all you could say.

Imagine the looks your friends might take
When next you speak it’s just “coos” you make.

But then, surely, something must be done
For in all this confusion, there wouldn’t be fun. 

So you’d take your pen and write it all down
Each “hoo” and “coo” and the methods of sound.

Not only the letters but meanings as well 
For better is showing than simply to tell.

You’d get a whole classroom or maybe some schools
And give all who’d listen, the hootish-ing rules.

You’d teach it to children and grown-ups, too,
Until everyone, all over the world, could "Hoo"; like you.

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Read more of my poetry for children here:

Lines in the Sand

Why I love flowers

Spinning & Spinning

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