by Carol-Ann Hoyte

(Sung to the tune of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”)

Don’t go, I’ll miss you too much

Promise you will stay in touch

I-M, fax, email, or text

to tell me when I’ll see you next

Or just send a letter, Matt

‘Scuse me, what on earth is that?

Copyright © 2012 Carol-Ann Hoyte. From the book The Poetry Friday Anthologms for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core. Pomelo Books. Reprinted by permission of the author.

About The Author

Carol-Ann Hoyte is an emerging Canadian children’s poet, based in Montreal, who made her debut in February 2008. She is the creator and co-editor of the award-winning international anthology for children entitled And the Crowd Goes Wild!: A Global Gathering of Sports Poems (FriesenPress, 2012). Her poems for children have been published in Australia, the United States, Canada, and England. Carol-Ann loves novels in verse, limericks, and riddle poems.

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