Doing a compilation of poetry for kids ( I love kids a lot and hope they have a lot to learn from these) Its not just poetry but a collection of modern nursery rhymes and Life's truisms. Well thought out and written to guide a child from infancy to adulthood.
Here they are:
All work and no play
make Jack a man before his day
The opposite is just as wild
Poor Jack will always be a child
Mary had a little lamb
her father shot it dead
She still takes it to school each day
Between two bits of bread
Jack and Jill
Went up the hil
To fetch a pail of water
I don't know what they did up there
but they came back with a daughter
Early to rise
Early to bed
Makes a man healthy
But socially dead
Old Mrs Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog some bread
But when she got there
the cupboard was bare
so the dog ate Mrs Hubbard instead.
In the search for Joy (which is futile)
Man finds a mate and walks down the aisle
to repeat that famous curse:
"we'll stay together, for better, for worse"
When I was a child
I spake as a child
Argumentative, obtuse and wild
But when I grew older
I gave up childish ways
And this has haunted me
The rest of my days.
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Monday, 12 May 2008
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