Near the end of National Poetry Month, we celebrate National Poem in Your Pocket Day. This is the perfect way to wrap up the month and to share a favorite poem.
If you don't already have a favorite, please step right this way. If the poems below don't tickle your fancy, there are many, many more online if you search "Poems for kids." We also have two shelves of poetry books in our library, which will be opening soon! A Balanced Diet I eat a balanced diet, I do it day and night-- a pound of brownies on my left, a pound upon my right. And filling up my right hand, with clear and certain heft, a twelve-ounce bag of jellybeans. The same is on my left. A candy cane in one hand, and likewise in the other. There are equal sweets on either side, a big frown from my mother. I eat a balanced diet, but my mother disagrees. I just don't understand it. She's so darned hard to please! -- Robert Scotellaro My Praying Mantis I once had a mantis as a pet. A praying mantis, you must not forget, is the tiger of the insect world, hungry, fierce and extremely bold; and if you are an insect, keep away should a mantis be lurking where you play. Anyway, my mantis was my very best friend. He sat on my shoulder, and I did defend his insect's right to stay with me, protect him from people's curiouslty; for they thought it very strange the way his body was arranged: For a start his neck was very long, and his heart-shaped head did not belong to that thin neck and bulbous abdomen or toothed arms as strong as ten, wings which gave hi speed in flight when he attacked and with delight grabbed a cockroach for his supper, tore and ate it with his choppers. However, one day, Phoebe, the neighbor's cat, gobbled up my mantis and that was that. Phoebe licked her lips, seemed satisfied with a chewed-up mantis in her inside. I suppose, for a mantis, the moral to the story is, look out for cats or you'll be sorry. -- John Lyons
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