Happy National Poetry Month! Thanks for dropping by my Poem Starter Video party.
Today’s poem comes from The Poetry Friday Anthology (Common Core K-5 edition): Poems for the School Year with Connections to the Common Core?(Pomelo, 2013), edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong, one of my very favorite anthologies to recommend to teachers because of its extraordinary range of poets/poems and its terrific and easy teaching tips. This poem is by Heidi Bee Roemer. I first became acquainted with Heidi’s work through Lee Bennett Hopkins’ fabulous anthologies. It was exciting to get to meet both Heidi and Lee at the 2009 (I think) SCBWI conference in Los Angeles. Heidi is as fun and funny and inherently nice in person as her poems are on the page.
The Guy in the Closet *
Gangly O’Dangly is frightfully shy.
He’s a rattle-bone, all alone, kind of a guy.The first time I saw him, I hollered, “By golly!”
He models the bones that are inside my body.Alas, there’s no brain inside his poor brainium;
Nary a hair grows upon his smooth cranium.He has two-hundred-six parts, including his tibia.
He hasn’t a tongue, so he can’t tell a fib-ula.Gangly is thin. His meals weren’t numerous.
You can count Gangly’s ribs. Can you tickle his humerus?*?medical skeleton
–by Heidi Bee Roemer, all rights reserved
And here is my Poem Starter Video:
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Absolutely love this poem. It tickles the tongue. Connie Currie
It does, doesn’t it? So fun to say!
Absolutely love this poem. It tickles the tongue. Connie Currie
It does, doesn’t it? So fun to say!
Oh, a bony poem……will try later if I can. This does tickle the funny poem and I like the rhymes Heidi chose.
Hehe…tickle the funny poem:>)
Oh, a bony poem……will try later if I can. This does tickle the funny poem and I like the rhymes Heidi chose.
Hehe…tickle the funny poem:>)
JACKSON B. JONES
Jackson B. Jones made no bones
About his love of pie.
Apple, cheery, peach, blueberry
He’ll give them all a try.
There was only one sweet treat
That he refused to try.
It was a plate of succulent,
Steaming porcupine pie.
(C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
Eeeuwwwwww! That’s a pie I would refuse, too!
JACKSON B. JONES
Jackson B. Jones made no bones
About his love of pie.
Apple, cheery, peach, blueberry
He’ll give them all a try.
There was only one sweet treat
That he refused to try.
It was a plate of succulent,
Steaming porcupine pie.
(C) Charles Waters 2013 all rights reserved.
Eeeuwwwwww! That’s a pie I would refuse, too!
So clever, Heidi! I remember learning about bones from my room mate at Uni.
The bony ghost
was a phoney ghost
so easy for folks to spot
he jangled and got tangled
he’s a true forget-me-not.
This feels like it could morph into a fun children’s song somehow:>)
I’ll have a play with it :0)
So clever, Heidi! I remember learning about bones from my room mate at Uni.
The bony ghost
was a phoney ghost
so easy for folks to spot
he jangled and got tangled
he’s a true forget-me-not.
This feels like it could morph into a fun children’s song somehow:>)
I’ll have a play with it :0)