Anybody Want a Peanut?: Cousins of Clouds

I'm not a big poetry lover, so the Cybils Poetry category is a tough sell for me.  My children hate poems with a burning passion, so even more so.  Usually I can talk my younger son into sharing a poem a night with me -- I find children's poems work a lot better if read aloud, and reading to an audience brings some lines alive.  Occasionally something wins our heart -- we all fell in love with last year's winner, Mirror Mirror.

Tracie Vaughn Zimmer's Cousins of Clouds: Elephant Poems did not repeat that magic.  Although some of the poems were informative, and I did enjoy the factual blurbs that accompanied each poem, nothing really grabbed our attention.  P started dragging his feet about showing up for even a single poem.  We did appreciate the "This Is Just To Say" poem, but more because of the concept than the execution.  A few phrases shone through, but most of these poems were wasted on me.

"Memory"

She detours through brush
to caress the sun-bleached bones
of her lost sister.

(my favorite)