With One White Wing

Elizabeth Spires' With One White Wing is an unusual poetry book -- each of the poems is a riddle.

Here's an example:
I weigh less than a feather
but you can't pick me up.
I can dance but I can't sing.
Without you, I am nothing.

With One White Wing by Elizabeth Spires is out of print,
but you can find it in your library or find used copies on A1 Books .

Do you know the answer to the poem-riddle above?
It's a shadow!

Pencil by Valerie Worth

pencil
by Valerie Worth

Plied over
Empty paper,
The shadowy

Tip of
This thin
Gold wand

Conjures up
Anything,
Everything.


picture by Natalie Babbitt

This poem is from Valerie Worth's Peacock and other poems. From this book, I also really liked the title poem, Umbrella, Milkweed, and Clouds. I'll have to read more by Ms. Worth.