Poems That I Like (by Jordan)

In this blog I am going to tell you my favorite poems from "Poems for Kids - over 600 poems for children in grades 3 - 6" by Lorrie L. Birchall.

I hope you find these as funny as I do.

The Purple Cow - By Gelett Burgess

I never saw a purple cow,

I never hoped to see one;

 but I can tell you, anyhow,

I'd rather see than be one.

Ann Jennings

Some have children some have none;

Here lies the mother of 21.

Ann Mann

Here lies the body of Ann Mann,

Who lived an old woman,

And died an old Mann.

Latitudes and Longitudes - By Hugh Lofting

'Twas in the tropic latitudes

That we were talking platitudes,

Just sailor-like chit-chatitudes

As any ship-mates might.

We forgot to take our longitude

(Which was a grievous wrongitude)

So we didn't reach Hong-kongitude

Till very late that night.

A Nursery Rhyme Mash-Up - By Michael Lewis

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner

Eyeing the pies all day,

While little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet

Eating her curds and whey.

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard

To give him a pie and bun,

When out walked a spider and sat down beside her-

So this little pig had none!

I Ate a Spicy Pepper

I ate a spicy pepper

From my brother on a dare.

The pepper caught my head on fire

And burned off all my hair.

My mouth erupted in lava

And my tongue began to melt.

My ears were shooting jets of steam

At least that's how they felt.

I ricocheted around the room.

I ran across the ceiling.

I dove right in the freezer

To relieve the burning feeling.

I drank a thousand soda pops

And chewed a ton of ice

To try to stop the scorching

Of that spicy pepper's spice.

At last, the flames extinguished,

I admitted to my brother,

"That pepper was the best one yet.

May I please have another?"

 Order in the Court

Order in the court

The judge is eating beans

His wife is in the bathtub

Shooting submarines.

The Queen of Nonsense Land - By Carolyn Wells

This is the Queen of Nonsense Land,

She wears her bonnet in her hand;

She carpets her ceilings and frescos her floors,

She eats on her windows and sleeps on her doors.

Oh, ho! Oh, ho! To think there could be

 A lady so silly-down-dilly as she!

She goes for a walk on an ocean wave,

She fishes for cats in a coral cave;

She drinks from an empty glass of milk,

And lines her potato trees with silk.

I'm sure that fornever and never was seen

So foolish a thing as the Nonsense Queen!

She ordered a wig for a blue bottle fly,

And she wrote a note to a pumpkin pie;

She makes all the oysters wear emerald rings,

And does dozens of other nonsensible things.

Oh! The scatterbrained, shatterbrained, lady so grand,

Her Royal Skyhighness of Nonsense Land!

The Old Man of Peru - By Edward Lear

There was an old man of Peru,

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe.

He awoke in the night,

In a terrible fright,

And found it was perfectly true.

Jacky Frost - By Laura E. Richards

Jacky Frost, Jacky Frost,

Crept around the house,

Sly as a silver fox,

Still as a mouse.

Out little Jenny came,

Blushing like a rose;

Up jumped Jacky Frost,

And pinched her little nose!