“Yes, this is it, the snowy ring –
Drawn with chalk and a piece of string!
Tell me why it was not made square
With four flat corners glittering there? “
“A child’s world knows no certain bound.
Its magic music goes round and round.
A child’s play has no sudden stop:
Look at the whirring flight of a top!
“A child’s mind sketches a shining floor
On which light fancy opens the door.
No end to a child’s soul! Hungrily
It stretches to white infinity.
“Squares are rigid, but circles yield
Like the meadow grass of a springing field!
So here’s the little white circle, meet
For a merry chorus of children’s feet!”
(Laura Benet)
More Poetry from Laura Benet:
Laura Benet Poems based on Topics: Children, Soul, Infinity- "She Wandered After Strange Gods." (Laura Benet Poems)
- "Feathers - Flowers" (Laura Benet Poems)
- Adventure (Laura Benet Poems)
- Cushy Cow (Laura Benet Poems)
- To A Parrot In A Farmhouse (Laura Benet Poems)
- The Penny (Laura Benet Poems)