The Bases

A thousand fun trees

For Berry Public School students to build in,

A million brown sticks 

For creating bases with.

Building beautiful bases like mansions in tall cities

With lots of room and windows,

A trillion tiny ants 

Carrying food from picnics.

A hundred little children

Spinning like they're in a tornado.

Seventeen green frogs

Jumping on hay and straw,

Fifty-two piles of pinecones 

Hidden in shelters.

Seven grateful grasshoppers 

Sharing all their food,

Twenty-two slippery stones

Scattered around the ground.

Two hundred long legs

Running around in circles.