Poem: 'The 'I-Can-Do-It' Girl'

For this you'll just have to imagine that the girl can't actually do most of the things mentioned in the poem. The poem would tell one side of the story but if I had pictures of the girl they would tell another. Keep this in mind when you read this one. I wrote this in the library at school the other day during my lunch-break, inspired by, of course, a daughter who claims she can do anything!

I can tie my shoelaces

I can comb my hair

I can put my trousers on

And jump high in the air

I can reach the light switch

Pair of poi I whirl

I can do most anything

I'm an 'I-can-do-it' girl!

I can spread my honey

I can sing a song

I can stay asleep in bed

All the whole night long

I can knit a pattern

Doing plain and purl

I can do most anything

I'm an 'I-can-do-it' girl!

I can use a vacuum

I can flush the loo

I can change the channels

To watch what I want to!

Swimming I do easily

A ball I throw and hurl

I can do most anything

I'm an 'I-can-do-it' girl!

I can run a marathon

Do the high jump too

I can throw the shotput

So much furtherer than you!

I can do gymnastics

In ballet bend and twirl

I can do most anything

I'm an 'I-can-do-it' girl!

I can read a story

From beginning to the end

I can give out all my sweets

To my one and true best friend

I can work the treadmill

And do a two-leg curl

I can do most anything

I'm an 'I-can-do-it' girl!

I can eat my brocolli

My brussel sprouts too

I can wash my long, brown hair

Without using shampoo!

Of all the things that I can do

In the whole, entire world

The thing that I can do the best..is

Be the 'I-can-do-it' girl!

(Picture from: www.alohasupply.com)