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Read and Enjoy • Creativity

In this poem, the poet suggests an imaginative and fun way to help
children fall asleep. Let’s read and enjoy this poem.

Hey, Ted, in just a little bit,

We’ll need to go to sleep.
So let me show you how.

It’s far more fun than counting sheep.

Lie down in bed and close your eyes.

Now take a breath and sigh,
And picture you’re an airplane and you’re

Flying through the sky.

Now fly a little lower through
The clouds and in the breeze,

Until you see the water of

The slowly rolling seas.

Then settle on the water where
You’ve now become a boat,

And feel the ocean rock you
Gently, gently as you float.

Now turn into a submarine
And sink beneath the waves,

To watch the fish swim in and out
Of underwater caves.

You follow them inside,
Exploring tunnels as you go.

It’s quiet here, and everything
Is beautiful and slow.

So you become the water now,
And you become the caves,

And you become the ocean and

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