What if fish had legs and walked amongst the ocean dregs?
Would they wear blue jeans and shoes and run to spread the latest fish news?
What if flies had teeth and chomped bits of meat?
Would they floss with horse hair and brush with flowers?
Smiling and saying cheese on top of dung towers?
What if frogs had helping hands and croaked and clapped?
Would they paddle on lily pads and twiddle their thumbs while they sat?
What if boys and girls had fins and wings?
Or jumpers and little parts that sting?
Or maybe they squawk instead of talk?
Or maybe hop instead of walk?
Would they cackle like chicks or sting like bees?
Or would they be like crickets and have ears on their knees?
I don’t know friend but in the end legs or gills, hands or wings,
As you watch the moon that grins and cloud that sings
Stretch and catch the dancing star your imagination brings!
An original poem by Director, Lisa Hoffman.
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Lisa Hoffman 16 Posts
Lisa Hoffman is the Director of Charlotte Nature Museum. Prior to joining Discovery Place in 2003, Lisa held positions as a science educator and mentor with District of Columbic Public Schools and worked for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. She has conducted air quality research using the fern O. cinnamomea as an indicator species and also studied the presence of endophytic fungi in the roots of ferns. She is committed to environment-based education and the improvement of urban schools.
Lisa holds a MS degree in Biology and a BS degree in Botany from Howard University in Washington, DC.
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