So many of the poems in the book make me laugh and give me ideas for writing my own poems. One of my favorite poems in the book is by Robyn Hood Black.
With Robyn's permission, I'm sharing her poem, Snack Rules with you.
SNACK RULES
Don't talk with your mouth full--
full of peanut butter.
Anything you try to say
will cmmm out as a mmmttrr.
Copyright © 22012 by Robyn Hood Black. Used with permission of the author. All rights reserved.
When I first read her poem SNACK RULES, my eyes played a trick on me and I read the title as SNAKE RULES and I thought it was the funniest thing to think of a snake with his mouth stuck shut with peanut butter. When I wrote to Robyn and told her of my mis-sight, she suggested that I write the poem I thought I saw. Or rather she said something like I always did have a thing for snakes. (She is right, I've written about them often.)
So I did. But when I got done I changed the title to:
SNAKE SNACKS
My pet snake,
I call him Drake,
likes to eat my snacks.
He eats the cheese,
he eats the nuts,
he eats all my
peanut butter crackers.
My snacks,
He says
are delicious
lip-smackers.
The only problem,
it happened quick,
the peanut butter
made him sick.
They made his lips
like glue stick.
Now instead of h-i-s-s-s-s-s
my pet snake hics.
A snake with hiccups
could cause fright.
His hic-ing keeps me up
all through the night.
Your poetry prompt for today is to think of an animal and write a poem about something that happens to it. What happens when the birds eat lemons, or the bear uses honey on his coat, or the dog rolls in the mud, or the hamster eats all your jellybeans? Can you find an animal that sets your imagination running? Happy Saturday. Have fun playing with your poem.
Thank you, Robyn for sharing your poem with us and for stimulating my creativity.
