Sequoia
You’re so tall, young sapling, I’ll wager
that you’re going to be massive one day!
Swings will hang from all of your branches,
there’ll be hundreds of bird’s nests I’d say.
It will take days to walk right around you,
and a week to climb up to the top -
lucky gravity won’t be affected,
we’ll come down in a one-minute drop.
that you’re going to be massive one day!
Swings will hang from all of your branches,
there’ll be hundreds of bird’s nests I’d say.
It will take days to walk right around you,
and a week to climb up to the top -
lucky gravity won’t be affected,
we’ll come down in a one-minute drop.
This poem is copyright (©) Melinda Szymanik 2025
About the Writer
Melinda Szymanik
Melinda is an award-winning New Zealand author of picture books, short stories and novels for children and young adults. Notable titles include The Were-Nana (Scholastic, 2008) winner of Children’s Choice at the 2009 NZ Post Children’s Book Awards, A Winter’s Day in 1939 (Scholastic, 2013) winner of Librarian’s Choice at the 2014 LIANZA Awards, and Fuzzy Doodle (Scholastic, 2016) a 2017 White Raven selection. She also writes poetry for adults and children, and regularly teaches creative writing.
