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Final Poem Anthology
Final Poem Anthology
Bon Apptit!
By: Jennifer Jones
English 414 A
Dr. Burke
February 28, 2016
Table of Contents:
Introduction.Page 3
Section 1: Never Take a Pig to Lunch
What you dont know about food..Page 4
Spaghetti! Spaghetti! ....Page 5
How do you make pizza grow? .Page 6
Peanut Butter and Jelly.Page 7
Never Take a Pig to Lunch.Page 8
Oodles of NoodlesPage 9
Picnics.Page 9
Section 2: Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
Toasting MarshmallowsPage 10
Breakfast.Page 11
Section 3: A Very First Book of Poetry
Banquet Song.Page 15
Lemons.Page 15
Apples to Keep.Page 16
Bibliography.Page 17
Introduction
My anthology of poems is based around food. I picked this topic because childrens are
always eating and enjoy having sweet things to eat. There are six essential qualities that I believe
childrens poems should feature. The first quality is that a child should be able to make some sort
of connection to the poem, this will help the student remember the poem later on. The second
quality is the poem should make the child laugh. Poems for children should be upbeat and jovial.
I believe that children will enjoy reading poems if they find them amusing. Third, the poem
should expand a childs imagination with bright and vivid color. Fourth, poems should include
creative language to enhance their vocabulary. The fifth quality is imagery, while reading a poem
children should be able to close their eyes and paint a picture in their mind of the poem. The last
essential quality is that the poem should rhyme. Rhyming words can help develop a childs
literacy and allow the child to think of his or her own rhymes. Children should be exposed to a
wide variety of poems in order to gain the full experience of reading poetry.
I enjoy the poems I have selected because each one of them has something that reminds
me of a time in my childhood. These poems are fun and goofy, which will capture a childs
attention. I like how some of the poems that are in this anthology rhyme, while others have their
own twist. The poem Spaghetti! Spaghetti! By: Jack Prelutsky is one of my favorite poems
because it is humorous and I am able to picture what is going on in the poem in my head. This
poem introduces new describing words that I can now use in my every day conversations. All of
the poems in one way, shape, or form involve food being present. I enjoy reading poems that are
focused on food and that also bring other surrounding elements into the story line.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
youre wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I cant get enough.
Youre covered with sauce
and youre sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some more please.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
piled high in a mound
you wiggle, you wriggle,
you squiggle around.
Theres slurpy spaghetti
all over my plate,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I think you are great.
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
I love you a lot,
youre slishy, youre sloshy,
Delicious and hot.
I gobble you down
Oh, I cant get enough
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Youre wonderful stuff
By: Jack Prelutsky
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You pound and you pull and you stretch the dough
And throw in tomatoes and oregano.
By: Anonymous
Oodles of noodles
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Picnics
Sunshine and wieners and pickles and ham,
Not enough salty for the eggs,
Marshmallows cooked on the end of a stick,
Ants crawling over our legs.
Toasting Marshmallows
I am a careful marshmallow toaster,
A patient marshmallow roaster,
Turning my stick oh-so-slowly,
Taking my time, checking often.
This is art
A time of serious reflection
As my pillowed confection
Slowly reaches golden perfection.
My brother
Grabs em with his grubby hands
Shoves em on a stick
Burns em to a crisp
Cools em off
Flicks soot
Eats quick.
Im still turning my stick.
Hes already eaten six.
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Breakfast
This chipmunk
Does not dine,
Does not idle,
Does not linger
Has no time
For chits and chats,
Nibbling bits
Of this and that.
Then suddenly
A chipmunk dash
past my feet,
a furry flash
sneaks a piece,
races back,
chewing fast,
a pancake feast
in chubby cheeks.
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Soggy Greens
Oh, soggy greens, I hate you,
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Sugarcake Bubble
Sugarcake, sugarcake,
Bubbling in a pot,
sugar cone
My favorite treat!
Sugarcake, sugarcake
melting drips;
I lick it off
my fingertips!
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Berries
Hurry
Berry
Hurry!
Fatten in the sun.
Huckleberry
Gooseberry
Dribble-dribble
Juice berry
Raspberry
Hackberry
Nibble-nibbe
Blackberry
Hurry
Everyone!
The way
Berries
Grow
Is
TOO
SLOW.
Banquet Song
Now to the banquet we press;
Now for the eggs, and ham;
Now for the mustard and cress,
Now for the strawberry jam!
Lemons
A lemons a lemony kind of thing,
It doesnt look sharp and it doesnt look sting,
It looks rather round and it looks rather square,
It looks almost oval, a yellowy pear.
It looks like a yellowy, lemony pear,
It looks like a pear without a stem,
It does look sharp and it doesnt look sting,
A lemons a lemony kind of thing.
But cut it and taste it and touch it with tongue
Youll see where the sharp and sting have been
HidingUnder the yellow without any warning;
I touch it and touch it again with my tongue,
I like it! I like! I like to be stung!
By: Patricia Hubbell
Apples to Keep
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Bibliography
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George, Kristine OConnell., and Kate Kiesler. Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems. New
York: Clarion, 2001. Print.
Gross, Sarah Chokla, and Marta Cone. Every Childs Book of Verse. New York: F. Watts, 1968.
Print.
Westcott, Nadine Bernard. Never Take a Pig to Lunch: Poems about the Fun of Eating. New
York: Orchard, 1994. Print.
Yolen, Jane, Andrew Peters, and Polly Dunbar. Here's a Little Poem: A Very First Book of
Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 2007. Print.
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