DETECTIVE DOG
Write a poem based on a selected noun.
If Our House Were on Fire, What Would I Take?
I would take you
just you …
May Day
James brought
Lacy and Chase.
Grace brought
Sadie and Payne.
Every dog learned to
shake, wait
and stay,
and then they all played games.
I Have No
I have no rain inside my house,
no grass instead of rug,
no tiny living dinosaur,
no belching monster bug.
From a Cat’s Point of View …
Here in the piano room,
I purr on a lap.
This is my lap,
no one else’s lap,
mine.
Poop Patrol
Eli is hunching near the fence
on a patch of grass
by the third tree
from the tool shed.
In Pollywog Park
One middle school kid,
talking cocky
commandeers the outdoor glider.
A gawky squirt
in a shirt that’s khaki
tries high five but he’s an outsider.
Thank You Poem
HEADLINE, DEADLINE, END-OF-LINE by April Halprin Wayland X There are no ants who climb these lines to hoist up every front-page word— absurd. X No crow flies low to drop in twos the sentences which caw the news. X Occasionally a friend will send a music essay which informs (though silence seems to be the […]
Nonsense Poem!
Wake up! Are you a Jabberwock?
your head has nodded to the desk
at first I thought ’twas writer’s block
Oh, beamish boy—you’re hair’s askew!
I kick your shoe—I think it best
before our teacher catches you.
Envelope Poems
There’s gotta be a word for this.
For that thing that happens
when I need new tennis shoes