Poems Poems Poems - A List of Poems on the Blog

April, 2016 Progressive Poem

This list is a resource so that I can find poems on the blog easily:

Poems About Penguins

Poems About Trees
A page full off poems about.....trees.....
Pine Tree Tops by Gary Snyder

Poems About Books and Reading and Wonderful Words
You got it...a page that's filling up with great poems about my favorite things!

ACROSTIC Poems -
The book Silver Seeds (Paolilli & Brewer)
..............."Top Secret" from Book Speak! (Salas)

Alphabetical by Author
Alexander, Kwame - How to Write a Poem: Celebrating Naomi Shihab Nye
Al-Jahiz - from In Praise of Books
Allen, Katrhyn Madeline - If I Were the Equator
anonymous - Weather
Ashman, Linda - Water
..............Experimenting Xavier
...............Eavesdropping Eva
Berry, Wendell - How To Be A Poet
Bishop, Elizabeth - For C. W. B.
Brown, Calef - Lone Star Witches
...............Old Napoleon
...............Scarecrow's Epitaph
Brown, Margaret Wise - The Leaves Fall Down
Brown, Skila - Steam Engine
Bryan, Ashley - Song
Bulion, Leslie - Flying Leap (abt. penguins)
Calmenston, Stephanie - The Popcorn Hop
...................Barnyard Chat
Colderley, Chris - "No Idle Days" Celebrating William Carlos Williams
Coleridge, Sara - Trees
Coville - Ripples
Davies, Nicola - Emperor Penguins
Dickinson, Emily - The Moon was but a Chin of Gold
Dotlich, Rebecca Kai - Pencils
.......................................Treasure Words
Drinkwater, John - The Sun
Durango, Julia - The Greater Sum of Parts (about Ashley Bryan)
Elliott, David - Stegosaurus
Esbensen, Barbara Juster - Storm
..................Fireworks
..................Discovery
Field, Rachel - The Animal Store
Fleming, Maria - Groundhog
Fletcher, Ralph - Frost in the Woods
....................Bill of Sale
....................Poetry
.....................Lost
Florian, Douglas - Awe-tumn
................Birds of Autumn
...............What I Love About Autumn
...............What I Hate About Autumn
...............What I Love About Summer
...............What to Do with Autumn Leaves
Fogliano, Julie
...............april 3
...............august 3
...............february 3
...............march 20
...............october 15
...............september 10
Foster, John - January
Frank, John - Ice Fishing, Baffin Island, Nunavut
...............Fishwheel, Fraser Canyon, British Columbia
...............Words, A Cold October Night, A Sprinkling of Snow, Footprints
Frost, Robert - In Hardwood Groves
....................Dust of Snow
Gerstein, Mordicai - Toothbrush
....................Socks
....................Ice-Cream Cone
....................Books
Graham, Joan Bransfield - Golden Gate Bridge
Greenfield, Eloise - In the Land of Words
....................Story
.....................Things
Harley, Avis - Monarch Beginnings 
....................Wintering Over
Harris, Chris - The Secret of My Art.
Harrison, David L. - Nicholas Cobb
....................Sounds of Rain
Heard, Georgia - This Moment
Havill, Juanita - Carrots
....................Garden Lullaby
....................Instructions
Herford, Oliver - I Heard a Bird Sing
Hoberman, Mary Ann -  A House is a House for Me
....................A Poem for the Reader (about memorization and memory)
....................Eggs
....................Miss McGillicuddy
....................North Pole
....................Sometimes (me, myself, and I)
....................Waiters
Holbrook, Sara - The Library
Hopkins, Lee Bennett - Mother's Plea
....................Painter (about Georgia O'Keeffe)
Hoopes, Lynn Littlefield - Sun
Hubbell, Patricia - "On My Island"
Hughes, Langston - "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
......................April Rain Song
Iyengar, Malathi Michelle - Sienna
Johnston, Tony - Storms In Oaxaca, Rabbit in the Moon, Old Palaces, Museum of Anthropology
Katz, Alan - They're Full of Beans
Katz, Bobbi - Freedom (about Harriet Tubman)
Katz, Susan - In the Flooded Forest
..............Walking Tree
..............Rafflesia
Kilmer, Joyce - Trees
Lamm & Hildreth - Latitude Longitude Dreams
Larios, Julie - Orange Giraffe
................Turquoise
................Green Frog

................ By the Sea (Orange Juice) 
Lee, Dennis - Muddy Puddle
Lewis, J. Patrick - Marathon Runner 
................Poet
...............Heroes and She-Roes, The Elementary School Teacher
...............The Organizer
...............Giant Bookmobile of Tomorrow
...............Balloon Car
Lyon, George Ella - Tree Song
McKissack, Patricia C. - Who Would Have Thought...
McLoughland, Beverly - Earth, What Will You Give Me?
Merriam, Eve - Evergreen
Miller, Rhett - My Secret Karate from No More Poems!
Moore, Lilian - The Tree on the Corner
Mora, Pat - Chocolate
...................This Big Sky
Nesbitt, Kenn - The Aliens Have Landed
Nichols, Judith - Wind Song
Nye, Naomi Shihab - The Traveling Onion
...............Before You Can

...............Everything in Our World Did Not See to Fit

...............Prayer in My Boot

...............Yellow Glove
O'Callaghan, Julie - White Sound (rain to snow)
O'Neill, Mary - Take a Number
Park, Linda Sue - Art Class, October,
...............Bedtime Snacks
Paschkis, Julie - Snake; Crow; Owl
Perry, Andrea - Snorist
...............The Scary-Hair Fairy
Peters, Lisa Westberg - Recipe for Granite, QuartzQuartzQuartz
Pollock, Penny - April
...............November

Pottle, Robert - "Loons" from Maine: The Way Life Should Be
Prelutsky, Jack
....................6 different haiku about animals:  Camel, Frog, Mole, Oyster, Peacock, Zebra
....................A Centipede Was Thirsty
....................Cupcakes
....................I Played a Game of Golf Today
....................I'm Gazing Through My Telescope
....................In Amarillo, Texas (colors: yellow)
....................My Pencil Will Not Write
....................My Snake Can Do Arithmetic
....................The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles (a silly poem that makes sense)
....................There's a Lady in Galoshes (Maine)
....................What Happens to the Colors?

Quick, Barbara - Conjuring Nana
Rankin, Joan - Today at the Blue-Bird Cafe
.......................The Woodpecker
.......................Blue Jay Blues
.......................The Loon's Laugh
Rock, Lisa - New Life
Rossetti, Christina - Who Has Seen the Wind?
....................Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are (in Blooming Beneath the Sun)
....................Hurt No Living Thing (in Blooming Beneath the Sun)
Ryder, Joanne - Toad by the Road  (great rhythm, being happy)  also here
Salas, Laura Purdis - Calling All Readers
...............Top Secret
...............Book Plate
Sandberg, Carl - Fog
Schertle, Alice - Bob's Bicycle Helmet
...............Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt
Sciezska - Astronaut Stopping by Planet on a Snowy Evening
Sidman, Joyce - To Manga, My Hamster and Sorry Back from the Hamster"
...............In the Almost-Light
...............Welcome to the Night
...............What Do the Trees Know?
Sierra, Judy - Diary of a Very Short Winter Day (about penguins) also here
Silverstein, Shel - Bear in There
Simler, Isabelle - Sloth
...............Horse
...............Grouse
Singer, Marilyn - Field Trip 
...............Spring Me!
...............The Year Turns
...............Casting Away Sins (Rosh Hashanah)
Smith, Hope Anita - Faith of a Mustard Seed
Smith,  John - Mud
Snyder, Gary - Pine Tree Tops
Spinelli, Eileen - When Grandma Comes (from Highlights 9/10)
Stevenson, James - Stone Wall
Stevenson, Robert Louis - Rain
...................................My Shadow
Teasdale, Sara - Night
The Only Cin - Overload
Traditional - Fuzzy Wuzzy
Updike, John - August

Waters, Charles - Courage (a cinquain)
Watson, Robert - Please Write, Don't Phone
Vanderwater, Amy Ludwig - April Waking
...............Lichens
...............Fossil
...............Song
................Woodpecker
.......Everyday Birds (whole book - see the poem)
Viorst, Judith - In Between
Wentworth, Marjory - How Billy Collins Writes a Poem
..................(Loving) The World and Everything In it: Celebrating Mary Oliver
Whitehead, Jenny - If You Could Paint a Springtime Day
............... April Fool's Day
...............It's Labor Day
...............Send Up Some Gratitude
...............Winter in the South
...............Celebrating Chinese New Year
Williams, William Carlos - This is Just to Say
...............The Red Wheelbarrow
...............The Great Figure
Wilson, Karma - Moose on the Bus
................Shades of Gray
................A Lump of Clay
................Man in the Moon
................Bubble Trouble
Wolfe, Digby - Kids Who Are Different
Wong, Janet - Prayer for the Lunar New Year
Worth, Valerie - Clouds
...............Hummingbird
Yolen, Jane - Horizon