By Miriam Erasmus
First of all came lots of eggs…. spawn’s the proper word.
From these eggs the tadpoles grew, tell me that you heard.
Tadpoles just have tails and heads. Look what’s happening here.
Little tiny legs and feet, starting to appear.
Look, the tail has nearly gone.Tadpole’s getting fat.
It’s become a baby frog. Goodness ! Fancy that!
Now it’s jumping from the pool, it’s amphibian.
See it catching lots of flies with its sticky tongue.
Frogs are small and frogs are huge. Green or brown or red.
Croaking to each other. Oh ! That one’s laying eggs!
From the Matriarch Music – The Art of Education – Theme Programme “Springtime”.
Author Bio:
Singer / Songwriter Miriam was born in Lewes, Sussex in 1948, and has a lifetime of making music.
From 1993-7 she was “Miriam Backhouse. The First Lady of Folk”.
She still tours Europe with her own songs and traditional ones.
In 1977 she married John Erasmus and moved to South Africa.
They raised a family as “Mim and John” playing music for all ages, but mostly touring the local Schools from 1987 to 2018.
She wrote 300 Educational songs and poems for children.
Now a journalist, she writes of life in South Africa and her travels.
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