To Catch A Cloud

I spy a cloud go floating by Where do you go, Cloud, so high? To the sea She sings Where the wild gulls fly Then catch me if you can I cry We race each other to the sea Can''t catch me, Cloud Can't catch me A boy and a dog follow a cloud out to sea, but as the weather worsens he relies on the whales and waves to bear him home.

Elena de Roo is an enormously talented poet who lives with her family in Auckland, New Zealand and has been writing for children since 2004. She has had a number of stories, poems, plays and readers published including The Rain Train.