Poems by Author

A.E. Housman

• Inhuman Henry
• Amelia Mixed the Mustard

Alan Katz

• Why? Huh? Why?
• Shhhhh…
• Friends on the Menu

Anonymous

• There Was a Young Lady Named Perkins
• Old Noah’s Ark
• Well, Hardly Ever
• The Joke
• The Rain
• The Common Cormorant
• The Cats of Kilkenny
• Do You Carrot All for Me?
• ‘Twas in the Month of Liverpool
• I Eat My Peas with Honey
• Under the Apple Tree
• Mr. Nobody
• If You Should Meet…
• There Was a Young Fellow Named Hall
• Ned Nott and Sam Shott

B.J. Lee

• The Ballad of the Naughty Poodle
• Much Ado About a ‘Do
• A Damsel Not in Distress
• The Karate Pig

Barry Louis Polisar

• The Warthog
• The Flying Paradise Snake of Borneo
• The Crocodile and the Gator
• My Brother Threw up on My Stuffed Toy Bunny
• Butterfly

Becci Murray

• Toenails
• The Sneeze
• Don’t Wear Your Knickers on Your Head

Bill Dodds

• Frankenstein’s Walk
• The Creature
• Big Mary
• There Was an Old Woman
• Molly Peters
• Mrs. Stein
• Could Have Been Worse

Bob Raczka

• Ode to a Skunk
• Puddle
• Norm

Brian Moses

• Aliens Stole My Underpants

Brian P. Cleary

• Almost Everyone
• Haiku
• I Babysat (Once)
• I Saw an Invisible Lion Today
• My Cat Bytes

Brian Rock

• The Ghost of Halloween Past
• Spud Love
• Betty Rosetti
• Salad Bowl
• TV Dinner

Bruce Lansky

• I Like My Nose
• My Dog Chewed up My Homework
• Out of Control
• My Dog Has Got No Manners
• Confession
• Scrambled
• My Violin

Calef Brown

• Borscht
• UFOs
• Whereabouts

Carolyn Wells

• The 4.04 Train
• The Tutor
• A Great Lady
• The Butter Betty Bought

Charles Ghigna

• I’m Not Afraid
• My Very Own Monster Pet
• Chickens
• Pigs

Chris Cook

• Benji Poffenroth
• Ooh! Ooh! I Know!
• My Pencil

Chris Harris

• Grown-Ups Are Better (I)
• Live Each Day Like it’s Your Last
• I’m Just No Good at Rhyming

Chris White

• Y
• I Think There’s a Monster Under My Bed!
• Ode to a Chicken

Colin West

• An Understanding Man
• When Rover Passed Over
• The Orang-utan
• Joe
• Norman Norton’s Nostrils

Darren Sardelli

• Keep Your Elbows on the Table
• Our Grandma Kissed a Pumpkin
• My Mom’s Favorite Book
• My Doggy Ate My Essay
• Dr. Invention
• Parent-Teacher Conference

Dennis Lee

• Apologies to My Most Noble and Excellent Friend
• The Tale of the Terrible Toothpaste
• The Notapotamus

Donna Murphy

• My Funny Poem
• Screaming Stevie
• Stu the Soccer Ball’s Lament
• Grandpa Pete and Me

Edward Lear

• The New Vestments

Eric Ode

• Tennis without a Net
• Deep Sea Squeeze
• The Tortoise and the Gecko
• Nothing Left to Learn
• Out of Sight

Gelett Burgess

• My Feet They Haul Me ‘Round the House

Guy Wetmore Carryl

• How Little Red Riding Hood Came to Be Eaten
• The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet

Harry Graham

• Quiet Fun

Harry Laing

• Nastychef
• Shark Salad

Hilaire Belloc

• Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion

Hughes Mearns

• Antigonish (or “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There”)

Jack Prelutsky

• The Turkey Shot out of the Oven
• Pumberly Pott’s Unpredictable Niece
• Bobbing for Apples
• The Grobbles
• Scramble

Jackie Hosking

• Laverne
• Silly Pigs
• It’s True

Jeff Mondak

• There’s a Bully in My Locker
• Daddy’s Making Dinner
• Regarding Laurie
• Nobody Knows Where Our Bus Driver Goes
• The Toy Box Ate My Brother

Joe Mohr

• Haiku Blues
• Superfluous
• My Favorite Things

Joshua Seigal

• My Brother’s Not Evolved Yet

Kathy Kenney-Marshall

• My Gramps and I Are Werewolves!
• Tinkle, Tinkle, Little Cat
• Insomnia

Kenn Nesbitt

• I’m Thankful for Turkey
• The Horsemen Are Headless this Evening
• Halloween Party
• My Dog Plays Invisible Frisbee
• The Biggest Burp Ever
• I Went to the Barber
• My Computer Ate My Homework
• Breakfast in Bed
• My Frog Recycles All His Trash
• April Fool’s Day
• My Feet

Kurt Cyrus

• Wanda Gripp
• Joe Shmif

Laura E. Richards

• The Owl and the Eel and the Warming-Pan
• Eletelephony
• Antonio

Leslie Bulion

• The Speed Eater

Linda Knaus

• Haunted House
• Bad Hair Day

Lynn Vieira

• What a Week!

Neal Levin

• The Locker Mess Monster
• Creepy Pizza
• Smells Like Chicken Noodle
• Saturn’s Rings
• Brother for Sale

Ogden Nash

• The Adventures of Isabel
• A Flea and a Fly in a Flue
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon

Oliver Herford

• The Rhinoceros

Paul Orshoski

• Grandpa’s Hair
• Dear Mother
• The Score Is Tied, My Knees Are Weak
• It’s Finally Friday
• What’d You Learn at School Today
• I Thought I Saw a Ghost Last Night
• Bigfoot’s Bottom

Robert Pottle

• The Bus
• The Princess of the Monkey Bars
• Peewee Soccer

Shel Silverstein

• Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

Spike Milligan

• A Thousand Hairy Savages
• I’m Not Frightened of Pussy Cats
• My Sister Laura

Ted Scheu

• Gold Medal Kid
• Nancy Cristman Kissed Me
• I Froze My Mother
• I Wrote Myself a Letter
• Maximillian’s Mouth

Tiffany Strelitz Haber

• Man’s Best Friend
• Oh Nose
• Food Fight
• Stinker
• The Loophole
• The Oven Strikes Back

Timothy Tocher

• The Day the Dinosaurs Come Back
• Fast Food
• Excuse Cheer
• Recess
• I Pledge Allegiance

William Brighty Rands

• Nathan Nobb