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SPRING BREAK
By April Halprin Wayland
The best clouds in the business
are right above me
right now.

We’re riding in this teal convertible
those clouds just dozing
in about forty-nine different shapes
...
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
Activities
Travels & Journeys
Joy & Contentment
Fun & Games
Timeless Treasures
Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses
By Elizabeth Acevedo
it was always the older kids
running to Riverside,
hiding behind trees and underneath

jungle gyms, holding their breath
in the darkness as the other team
tried to find them.

I could not wait to be old enough;
a captor’s arms clasping.
Manhunt, manhunt 1, 2, 3.
This poem...
Living
Life Choices
Youth
The Mind
Memory & Nostalgia
Relationships
Friends & Enemies
Fun & Games
The Floatin Baby
By Marilyn Nelson
A doll was forgotten in a bedroom
when the old owners of the house moved out
and G-ma and Gramps moved their family in.
There’s an old photograph in an album
of boy Uncle Roy laughing, holding it
in a jumble of moving-in boxes.

It spent...
Living
Youth
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
Home Life
Activities
Indoor Activities
Joy & Contentment
Optimism
Fun & Games
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The Dentist and the Crocodile
By Roald Dahl
The crocodile, with cunning smile, sat in the dentist’s chair.
He said, “Right here and everywhere my teeth require repair.”
The dentist’s face was turning white. He quivered, quaked and shook.
He muttered, “I suppose I’m going to have to take a look.”
“I...
Nature
Animals
Animals
Fun & Games
Nature Knows Its Math
By Joan Bransfield Graham
Divide
the year
into seasons,
four,
subtract
the snow then
add
some more
green,
a bud,
a breeze,
a whispering
behind
the trees,
and here
beneath the
rain-scrubbed
sky
orange poppies
multiply.
Gratitude
Joy & Contentment
Fun & Games
School
Sports and Outdoor Activities
First Saturday in June
By Eileen Spinelli
Fifty-nine days to go.

I can't find my purple beach towel.
I can't even get to my closet
without walking across
a sea of dirty socks.

Mom pokes her head into my doorway,
says:
“Time to clean your room, Sophie.”
And I have to admit
she's right.

And it's not...
Fun & Games
Holidays
And Later . . .
By Jen Bryant
I take my kaleidoscope off the shelf,
look through the little hole at the end
of the cardboard tube;

I turn and turn and turn and turn,

letting the crystals shift into strange
and beautiful patterns, letting the...
Fun & Games
[in Just-]
By E. E. Cummings
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old...
Nature
Spring
Living
Coming of Age
The Mind
Memory & Nostalgia
Arts & Sciences
Philosophy
Mythology & Folklore
Meters
Free Verse
Types/Modes
Concrete or Pattern Poetry
Joy & Contentment
Optimism
Fun & Games
Sports and Outdoor Activities
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Carousel
By Rebecca Kai Dotlich
On thin golden poles
gliding up, sliding down,
a kingdom of horses
goes spinning around.

Jumper, Brown Beauty,
Dark Thunder, Sir Snow,
a medley of ponies
parade in a row.

Settled in saddles,
their riders hold on
to reins of soft leather
while circling along

on chestnut or charcoal,
on sleek Arctic...
Fun & Games
He Laughed with a Laugh
By JonArno Lawson
He laughed with a laugh
that he wished was his laugh,
but everyone knew it wasn’t.

When he laughed he would ask,
"Does that sound like my laugh?"
and everyone said, "It doesn’t."

The laugh that he laughed
that wasn’t his laugh went
"Hardy har har, guffaw!"

The laugh...
Friends
Fun & Games
Signing on a Crew
By David L. Harrison
Gather 'round, ye scurvy mates,
I'm signing on a crew.

You there! Can ye tie a knot?
Ye’ll do.

I'd say you've snatched a purse or two.
Ye'll do.

Does the thought of plundered gold
make ye shiver?
Make ye bold?
Ye'll do.

Ha! You’re rotten through and through!
Ye'll do.

Phew!...
Being Oneself
Culture
Friends
Fun & Games
Confession
By Bruce Lansky
I have a brief confession
that I would like to make.
If I dont get it off my chest
I'm sure my heart will break.

I didn't do my reading.
I watched TV instead—
while munching cookies, cakes, and chips
and cinnamon raisin bread.

I didn't wash the...
Fun & Games
Dirty Face
By Shel Silverstein
Where did you get such a dirty face,
My darling dirty-faced child?

I got it from crawling along in the dirt
And biting two buttons off Jeremy’s shirt.
I got it from chewing the roots of a rose
And digging for clams in the yard...
Living
The Body
The Mind
Memory & Nostalgia
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
Activities
Sports & Outdoor Activities
Arts & Sciences
Philosophy
Humor
Joy & Contentment
Being Oneself
Fun & Games
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Auto-Lullaby
By Franz Wright
Think of a sheep
knitting a sweater;
think of your life
getting better and better.

Think of your cat
asleep in a tree;
think of that spot
where you once skinned your knee.

Think of a bird
that stands in your palm.
Try to remember
the Twenty-first Psalm.

Think of a big...
Living
The Mind
Stanza Forms
Rhymed Stanza
Animals
Fun & Games
A Boat
By Richard Brautigan
O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.
Nature
Animals
Living
Mythology & Folklore
Fairy-tales & Legends
Meters
Free Verse
For All Ages
Animals
Friends
Fun & Games
+ 4 more
A Boat
By Richard Brautigan
O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival
and he started
   crying
when he saw
the Ferris wheel.
Electric
green and red tears
flowed down
his furry cheeks.
He looked
like a boat
out on the dark
water.
Nature
Seas, Rivers, & Streams
Relationships
Pets
Meters
Free Verse
For All Ages
Animals
Friends
Fun & Games
+ 3 more
The Ecchoing Green
By William Blake
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring.
The sky-lark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells’ cheerful sound.
While our sports shall be seen
On the Ecchoing Green.

Old John, with white hair
Does laugh...
The Mind
Memory & Nostalgia
Stanza Forms
Couplet
Rhymed Stanza
Techniques
Refrain
Disappointment
Joy & Contentment
Classics
Fun & Games
Sports and Outdoor Activities
Timeless Treasures
+ 6 more
Mix a Pancake
By Christina Rossetti
Mix a pancake,
Stir a pancake,
Pop it in the pan;
Fry the pancake,
Toss the pancake—
Catch it if you can.
Stanza Forms
Rhymed Stanza
Types/Modes
Nursery Rhymes
Joy & Contentment
Fun & Games
Sweet Dreams
By Joyce Armor
It’s always been a wish of mine
(Or should I say a dream)
To scare my sister half to death
And hear her piercing scream.

That’s why I squished four bugs until
They all were very dead,
Then took them to my sister’s room
And put them...
Fun & Games
The One About the Robbers
By Zachary Schomburg
You tell me a joke about two robbers who hide from the police. One robber hides as a sack of cats and the other robber hides as a sack of potatoes. That is the punch line somehow, the sack of...
Living
Parenthood
The Mind
Relationships
Family & Ancestors
Arts & Sciences
Philosophy
Types/Modes
Prose Poem
Being Oneself
Fun & Games
+ 4 more

p1Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses

p1The Floatin Baby

p1Auto-Lullaby

p1A Boat

Manhunt or Ode to First Kisses

The Floatin Baby

Auto-Lullaby

A Boat