Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Poems

"The Mist and All" by Dixie Wilson I like the fallThe mist and allI like the night owl’s lonely callAnd wailing soundOf wind around I like the grayNovember dayAnd bare, dead boughs that coldly s...

15 Nov 20242min

"Geography" by Eleanor Farjeon Islands and peninsulas, continents and capes,Dromedaries, cassowaries, elephants and apes,Rivers, lakes and waterfalls, whirlpools and the sea,Valley-beds and mountai...

8 Nov 20243min

"Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore" by William Brighty Rands   Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore —No doubt you have heard the name before —Was a boy who never would shut a door! The wind might whistle, the win...

1 Nov 20244min

"Bear in There" by Shel Silverstein There's a polar bearIn our Frigidaire—He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.With his seat in the meatAnd his face in the fishAnd his big hairy pawsIn the buttery...

25 Okt 20242min

"Seal" by William Jay Smith See how he divesFrom the rocks with a zoom!See how he dartsThrough his watery roomPast crabs and eelsAnd green seaweed,Past fluffs of sandyMinnow feed!See how he swimsWi...

18 Okt 20242min

"My Father Gave Me Seeds" by John Foster My father gave me seeds.I gave the seeds to the earth.The earth gave me flowers.I gave the flowers to the bees.The bees gave me honey.I gave the honey to a ...

11 Okt 20242min

"maggie and milly and molly and may" by e. e. cummings maggie and milly and molly and maywent down to the beach(to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sangso sweetly she couldn’t remember...

4 Okt 20243min

"I Sit Beside the Fire and Think" by J. R. R. Tolkien I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen,of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;Of yellow leaves and gossam...

27 Sep 20243min