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More poems about Other Animals
TREAD SOFTLY
Tread softly in the forest as on nature
you encroach
Leave all as you find it do not ever try
and poach,
Leave flowers and saplings growing
however fair,
For this is there home and they need
to live there.
Leave with you sweet memories, store
them neatly away
So they can be remembered on some
cold icy day,
Take your camera with extra film
along as well,
You may capture for a moment many
creatures that dwell
Within the trees and foliage, wild friends
great and small,
From a shrew to the mighty moose so
grand and tall.
Tread softly as you trespass in their
sheltered home,
But never too deep into the forest
ever roam,
Always take a compass some food and
water to drink
For more people get lost in a forest, more
than you think.
(Millicent) Ann Margetson 5 June 2006\