Find me this poem PLEASE!!!!

[poetrylover]

Afternoon.

Can any of you remember this poem - it was in the book 'Worms Wiggle, Bugs Jiggle' and from a Readers Digest set. It starts:

I like a wood.
Wherever you go in it, there's always something you didn't know in it.

It then talks about shiny backed beetles that scuttle and run in it and moss covered sticks and wandering pathways to follow where you like in it. It talks about moss and the smell and toadstools.....

I have the book but can't find it and I NEED to remember this lovely poem!

Thank you!

Is this it?whisperingleaves.bandcamp.com/track/come-little-leaves-autumn-showers-and-i-like-a-wood

Yes it is!! Thank you! I got a bit weirded out when the track started but realise there were a few to go through. I will have to find it written out and who wrote it or I will be typing it up.

Thanks again (and so fast!)

Does this look right @poetrylover?

N A WOOD

I like a wood. Wherever you go in it
There’s always something you didn’t know in it:

Roots and moss and gnarled bits of stick in it,
Shiny-backed beetles that hurry and kick in it;

Toadstools and fungus, grubs or a worm in it,
Odd little insects that scamper or squirm in it;

Dry leaves to shuffle in over your shoes in it,
Wandering pathways to go where you choose in it;

Always some nice sort of licheny seat in it,
And mostly a nut or a berry to eat in it;

An earthy and mossy and mildewy smell in it -
Oh, hundreds more things than you ever could tell in it!

~Joyce Brisley (1896 - 1978)

Thank you! I do love this poem and used to know it by heart, reciting it on every woodland walk when my boy was small! 🍄🌸