Following are some of the poems you will find in my second children's poetry collection, that downhill yelling

Blue as dolphin fins
yellow as seagull chicks.

Blue as waves frilled by ice
yellow as sun yolk cracked
at breakfast.

Blue from the inky depth,
octopus and galleon skulls,
yellow from the creamy sand
chippy fat and fish fry.

Then along the shore
a café painted bright
'Captain Café,' blue cap
yellow ropes
and icecream,
blueberry and golden honeycomb

lick the colours together.

(c) Poems by Lorraine Marwood

Speckle juice
can be found
in special road holes
where me and my brother
ride our bikes

through after-rain
puddles fast, fast

spatter, spatter
back wheel stirs

speckle juice.

(c) Poems by Lorraine Marwood

That's another word for camouflage
those grey kangaroos
sit tall like whiskered bark
of grey trunk trees

and the shadows catch knees
and deer-like ears,
eyes that glisten fear,

so hiding shapes
to textured colour
and breathing in
    breathing out
through sunlight and bird call
means more kangaroos at nightfall.

(c) Poems by Lorraine Marwood

From out of bush
come to our front lawn
doe-face, brown fur
dressed like tree bark,
green grass to snatch.

Mother, joey, young male
mouthfuls on all fours
then lifting to chew,
to sniff all around danger.
Alert ears twitching
a noise, twig snapping
       then
tail, back legs pushing
leaping, highjumps bounding
across road and into the brown
camouflage of trees and thick bush.

(c) Poems by Lorraine Marwood