HAPPY POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     Let me share this one with you.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     It helps me when I'm blue.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     It's stuck in my heart like glue.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     I know the words are true.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     It gives me ideas I can chew.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     I know it by heart, don't need a cue.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     And its meaning grew and grew.

I keep a poem in my pocket.
                     Would you like to try it too?

Just keep a poem in your pocket.
                      That's all you need to do.

Share the poem in your pocket.
                      Toddle-oo.


     It is national Poem In Your Pocket Day where people are encouraged to keep a poem in their pocket and share it with others today.  This is a poem written for two voices.  Your poetry challenge for today is to write another stanza to go in this poem.  You can leave your couplet in the comments.  I'm off today to my local library to help the children write poems and make pockets.  I'll be reciting my poem CAPILLARY ACTION for them from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, published by Pomelo Books.

DELICIOUS

One cookie         yummy
Two cookies        delish
Three cookies     delush
Four cookies       enough
For all of us
Delicious!


            Opps, I'm at it again, can you find the words I've made up for this poem?  I don't think you'll find "delish" or "delush" in your dictionary.  They are both short forms for delicious.
           This is a poem that can be performed with two voices.  Gosh, I should think if I was learning to count, I'd love counting cookies.  Can you write your own counting poem today?  Have a great day.

El Sol-The Sun

The sun shines

                            on a tree.

The sun shines

                            on the bee.

The sun shines    

                            on the sea.

The sun shines

                            on me.

They say,

                            it seldom rains.

When the sun shines

                            I feel fine

When the sun shines.



     This is another poem than can be read in two voices.  Can you write your own poem today about the sun or the rain.  Yesterday I read that to be happy one needed to learn to dance in the rain.  What do you like to do in the sun?  In the rain?

Halfway to the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea

Henry Haddock met

Hannah Halibut

halfway to the bottom

of the deep blue sea.

Said Henry to Hannah,

"You've stolen my heart.

Will you marry me,

halfway to the bottom

of the deep blue sea?"

Said Hannah to Henry,

"You are a handsome fish,

my husband you will be

halfway to the bottom

of the deep blue sea."
 

So they hired a humpback whale

to do their ceremony

halfway to the bottom

of the deep blue sea.
 

There they lived happily

and had hundreds of little fishies

halfway to the bottom

of the deep blue sea.
    

How many "h's" can you find in this poem?  Can you make your own list of "h" words?  How can you put those words together to write your own poem?  This would be a good poem to stress the sense of hearing.  Have fun.
    I owe inspiration for this poem to Pat and Don Murphy.  We had dinner with them last night at a sea food restaurant and I mentioned I was working on an "H" poem. They suggested the "h" fish.  

    When I told my sister about the haddock and halibut, she suggested I add a humpback whale.  So of course, the whale had to do the ceremony. 

     Today on our walk I recited this poem to my husband and he pointed out that haddock and halibut are bottom dwellers.  But I told him they would never get married anyway and if a frog could marry the mouse, I could have a halibut marry a haddock and have baby fishies, halfway to the bottom of the deep blue sea. 

     Actually that is the phrase I like best about this poem.  This can be done as a poem in two voices with the audience (or children) repeating the phrase, halfway to the bottom of the deep blue sea.  Enjoy.