Cannonball! Poem by Sophia White

Pitter patter pitter patter
Sounding down the hall
Tipping feet tapping feet
Padding-soft-as-cat feet
Puttering, pittering, down the hall
Pitter patter pitter patter
Wild undulating scream!
Cannonball!
Hair and lace and small bare feet
In a wild tangle flies
Behind a pair of great blue eyes!
Giggle and another shriek
Too slippery to catch!
Twirl away and launch again
Flutter thick eyelash and then
Cannonball!
Knot of curls and feet and ribbon
Twirling, falling, leaping, shrieking
Pitter patter pitter patter
Sneak away! Shhh! Sneak away!
Pitter patter… pitter… patter…
Cannonball!