Poem needed - Help please!!

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[popsycal]

it was naitonal poetry on thursday and the theme was food......

Spaghetti! Spaghetti
by Jack Prelutsky
Spaghetti! spaghetti!
You're wonderful stuff
I love you spaghetti,
I can't get enough. You're covered with sauce
and you're sprinkled with cheese
Spaghetti, spaghetti
Oh, give me some please

Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I love you a lot
You're slishy, you're sloshy
delicious and hot
I gobble you down
Oh, can't get enough
spaghetti! spaghetti
You're wonderful stuff

[JoolsToo]

How about Edward Lear

Edward Lear 1812-1888
The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood,
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.



"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.

[SoupDragon]

Something from When We Were Very Young/Now We Are Six etc?

[binkie]

Ogden Nash? Eg

The Shrimp

A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp
Could catch no glimpse
Not even a glimp.
At times, translucence
Is rather a nuisance.

[popsycal]

try here

[popsycal]

haha O like this one

[MeanBean]

I find DH Lawrence's novels unreadable, but he wrote some corking short poems. Off the top of my head, one of them is:

Any woman who says to me "do you really love me?" earns my undying detestation.

That's the whole poem. But he's got quite a few like that.

Or what about the blessed Dorothy Parker?

By the time you say you're his
Simpering and sighing
And he says his passion is
Infinite, Undying
Lady, make a note of this
One of you is
Lying

On reflection, perhaps neither of those suggestions are suitable for a ten year old. But I'm sure one of them wrote something short and funny that would be.

[hmb]

How about this

Sick
Shel Silverstein



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"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cutmy eyes are blue
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"


Funny but might be a bit long. Goggle for the author, he is great and American so unlikly to be too popular IYSWIM

[MeanBean]

Oh, those others are much more suitable!

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[Amfs]

Can't beat a bit of Spike though

There's holes in the sky
Where the rain comes in
But they're terribly small
That's why rain is thin

(love that one)

[yoyo]

The Cow by Ogden Nash

The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.

[KBear]

What about Pam Ayres' poems? Always hilarious.

"I am a bunny rabbit
Sitting in me hutch
I always sit down this end
Don't care for that end much"

I've got a book of her poems upstairs (sad but true) if you want the rest of it!!

[popsycal]

i eat my peas with honey
i have done it all my life
it makes my peas taste funny
but it keeps them on the knife

(dont know where it comes from, or why you would eat your peas with a knife but there yu go)

[yoyo]

Forgot "Please Mrs Butler" by Allan Ahlberg - lots of scope to imitate teacher.

[hmb]

Just found another by Shel, if your ds dares!

Crazy Dream

Last night I had a crazy dream
That I was teaching school.
My teachers had turned into kids,
And I laid down the rules.

I gave 'em a hundrad hist'ry books
To memorise each night,
And made 'em read 'em on their head
Without turnin' on the light

I sent on a field trip
To the outskirt of Mongolia,
And gave 'em an overnight assignment
To grow a twenty foot purple magnolia.

I asked 'em how many awful grades
Can cause how many tears?
And if they got one answer wrong,
I just hung 'em by their ears.

And when they talked or laughed in class,
I pinched 'em 'til they cried
Louder and louder- 'til I woke up
Feelin' very satisfied.