Jackie Morris Childrens Book Illustration, watercolour painting, greetings cards

"The next full moon they climbed down the steep path to the stony beach. Everything was still and cold. Together they sang a song to call their mother up from her home.

As the last note echoed in the dark caves, a sleek, dark head broke through the water."

Ffion and Morlo decide that they will call their mother from the sea to ask if the stories she told them when they were little are true, whether there is really treasure in her sea world. They leave their home at night by the light of a full moon and walk down the moon-shadowed path to the sea. The moon is so bright that only constellations are visible in the clear, cold sky.

Try and imagine how they feel out alone on the beach at night, waiting to see if their mother will answer their call, if she can help fulfill the villagers' dreams. The shadows would be sharp and deep from the light of the moon which makes a silver path across the sea, a cold, white light that wipes the colour from the world around them.
Write a poem to describe how they feel, to give words to their song of calling. Try to bring into the poem the sounds of the waves as they lap against the shore and pull and play with the stones on the beach, the smell of the sea and the smell of the night.

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