“Now what are you dreaming about?” The teacher asked Billy McCaw “About having a great big house And a million bucks like my pa.” “Your dad hasn’t got a big house, And a million bucks? I doubt it.” “Oh, pa ain’t got a million bucks, But he’s always dreamed about it.”
Category: Poetry
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Day Dreamer
December 28th, 2022 — Poems for Children
Table Manners
December 26th, 2022 — Poems for Children
I sit and stare As my human eats Not because he sometimes Will slip me little treats I sit and stare, Don’t mean to be rude, Just to learn how he keeps His ears out of his food!
Feet
December 25th, 2022 — Poems for Children
Centipedes have one hundred feet, Don’t you think that is kind of neat? An arachnid makes do with eight, Which seems to work out really great. All of the insects each have six With which they do all sorts of tricks. While cows and dogs get by with four And never have a need for […]
Little Boy Blue
December 17th, 2022 — Mangled Nursery Rhymes
Why do you suppose Little Boy Blue turned blue When the cows got into the corn? Do you think, maybe, It had something to do With the way that he blew his horn?
God is Watching
December 16th, 2022 — Poems for Children
“Just one apple per student,” A sign was placed there to say. In bold print, “God is watching, Put only one on your tray.” Then on the cookie table, A sign painted by the same nun, “A clean plate earns a cookie, But you must take only one.” “Take all the cookies you want,” The […]

