Fabulous flecks

of feather-white fluff

gracefully fall

from a frozen sky.

But moisture and cold

aren’t quite enough

to make water droplets

solidify.

Most of those freezing

flakes of snow

use something alive

on which to grow.

Those Jack Frost patterns

will only start

when a microbe lies

at a snowflake’s heart.

Smoky plumes of sulphur fumes,
yellow against those molten rocks,
this scene’s by a volcano
where eruptions haven’t stopped.

Splashing sea with hissing glee
we see where steaming lava ran
into the chilly ocean and
turned to dark obsidian.

The reddest, hottest minerals,
when slowly cooled, turn crystalline.
But liquid rocks are shocked to glass
when quickly cooled by ocean’s brine.

https://kids.kiddle.co/Obsidian

Who spilled the rainbow?

Who turned it upside down?

Now all the colours

Are messed up on the ground.

It must have been some silly bird

Not watching where it flew –

It brought the rainbow

Crashing down

In a shower of goo.

I saw the erky-perky bird
flying through the sky.
I saw the erky-perky bird
had only got one eye.

It did an erky-perky from  
high up in the sky.
But when it circled back again,
I saw its second eye!

The moral of the story's clear:
Do not be misled.
The erky-perky bird has 
eyes both sides its head.