Shadow Puppets

4"x6" watercolor painted by Paula Nevison, inspired by Shadow Show poem written by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Shadow Show

When birds are snuggled into nests

when night begins to fall

my hands like making shadows

in the spaces on my wall.

The moon peeks in my window

like a knowing, glowing eye

to help my hands turn into birds

and flapping fingers, fly.

My hands are dogs and dragons

for I learn new shapes each night.

Shadow-shapes of cats and trees

dance through moony light.

My hands like telling stories

of forest, sky, and sea

whenever we play shadow show –

my wall, the moon, and me.

by: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2015/03/shadow-show-poems-about-what-we-always.html