I'm nobody! Who are you? (Monday Poem)

by Emily Dickinson

 

 

I'm nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

The there's a pair of us --- don't tell!

They'd banish us, you know.

 

How dreary to be somebody!

How public, like a frog

To tell your name the livelong day

To an admiring bog!

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Twins (Monday Poem)

 by Elizabeth Madox Roberts

 

 

The two-ones is the name for it,

And that is what it ought to be,

But when you say it very fast

It makes your lips say twins you see.

 

When I was just a little thing,

About the year before the last,

I called it two-ones all the time,

But now I always say it fast.

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012 

 

Poem for Rodney (Monday Poem)

by Nikki Giovanni

 

 

people always ask what

am i going to be

when i grow 

up and i always

just think

i'd like to grow

up

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012 

 

Sometimes (Monday Poem)

 by Mary Ann Hoberman

 

 

Sometimes I like to be alone

And look up at the sky

And think my thoughts inside my head ---

Just me, myself, and I.

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fireflies (Monday Poem)

 by Mary Ann Hoberman

 

 

Fireflies at twilight

In search of one another

Twinkle off and on.

 

 

from Forget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart 

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Little, Brown & Co, 2012