The Animal Store (Monday Poem)

by Rachel Field 

 

 

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

Or maybe a little more,

I'd hurry as fast as my legs would go

Straight to the animal store.

 

I wouldn't say, "How much for this or that?" --

"What kind of a dog is he?"

I'd buy as many as rolled an eye,

Or wagged a tail at me!

 

I'd take the hound with the drooping ears

That sits by himself alone;

Cockers and Cairns and wobbly pups

For to be my very own.

 

I might buy a parrot all red and green,

And the monkey I saw before,

If I had a hundred dollars to spend,

Or maybe a little more.

 

 

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

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Illustrated by Michael Emberley

Little Brown and Company, 2012  

 

Chums (Monday Poem)

by Arthur Guiterman

 

 

He sits and begs; he gives a paw;

He is, as you can see,

The finest dog you ever saw,

And he belongs to me.

 

He follows everywhere I go

And even when I swim.

I laugh because he thinks, you know,

That I belong to him.

 

But still, no matter what we do,

We never have a fuss,

And so I guess it must be true

What we belong to us.

 

 

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

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Illustrated by Michael Emberley

Little Brown and Company, 2012  

 

 

 

 

Messages from Everywhere (Monday Poem)

 light up our backyard.

A bird that flew five thousand miles

is trilling six bright notes.

This bird flew over mountains and valleys

and tiny dolls and pencils

of children I will never see.

Because this bird is singing to me,

I belong to the wide wind,

the people far away who share

the air and the clouds.

Together we are looking up

into all we do not own 

and we are listening.

 

 

 

by Naomi Shihab Nye 

 

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

Selected by Mary Ann Hoberman

Illustrated by Michael Emberley

Little Brown and Company, 2012  

Eletelephony (Monday Poem)

 by Laura E Richards

 

 

Once there was an elephant,

Who tried to use the telephant --

No! No! I mean an elephone

Who tried to use the telephone --

(Dear me! I am not certain quite

That even now I've got it right.)

 

Howe'er it was, he got his trunk

Entangled in the telephunk;

The more he tried to get it free,

The louder buzzed the telephee --

(I fear I'd better drop the song

Of elephop and telephong!)

 

 

from Sing a Song of Popcorn: Every Child's Book of Poems

Selected by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

Scholastic, 1988