Poetry Index by Subject
A
ABECEDARIAN - "Wintering Over" - The Monarch's Progress
ACROSTIC - "BUTTERFLY" - Silver Seeds
ACROSTIC - "CLOUDS" - Silver Seeds
ACROSTIC - "DAWN" - Silver Seeds
ACROSTIC - "Empathy" - Dictionary for a Better World
ACROSTIC - "Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress
ACROSTIC - Necessary Gardens - Please Bury Me in the Library
ACROSTIC - "SUN" - Silver Seeds
ACROSTIC - "Top Secret" Book Speak!
ACROSTIC - "TREES" - Silver Seeds
activity - star inside apples - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun
aliens - "The Aliens Have Landed" - website
aliens - "I'm Gazing Through My Telescope" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
aliens - "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126
ALLITERATION - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song
ALLITERATION - "Lichens" - Forest Has a Song
alone, being - "Sometimes" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 1
America welcomes immigrants - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters
animal sounds - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury
animals/barnyard - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury
animals/general - "Hurt No Living Thing" - Blooming Beneath the Sun
animals/imaginary - "The Jackslope" - The Poetry of US
animals/night - "Welcome the the Night" - Dark Emperor
animals/oysters - "Oyster" (haiku) - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
animals/pets - "The Animal Store" - Forget-Me-Nots
anthropomorphism - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box
appearances can be deceiving - "Things Are Different" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
apples (star inside) - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun
"April (The Frog Moon)" (Pollock) - When the Moon is Full
April Fool's Day - "April Fool's Day" - Holiday Stew
"April Rain Song" (Hughes) - Forget-Me-Nots
Arizona/Sonoran Desert/Tucson - "Legends of the Sonoran Desert" - The Poetry of US
Arizona/Sonoran Desert - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing
art/bad drawing - "The Secret of My Art" - website
art/clay - "A Lump of Clay" - Outside the Box
art/museum - "Field Trip" - First Food Fight This Fall
art/weird - "Art Class" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
autumn - "An Autumn Geeting" Grn. Ntbk. p. 27
autumn - "Awe-tumn" - Autumnblings
autumn - "Birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings
autumn - "Leaf Dance" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 253
autumn - "October" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
autumn - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween
autumn - "What I Hate About Autumn" - Autumnblings
autumn - "What I Love About Autumn" - Autumnblings
autumn/leaves turning - "october 15" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
autumn/leaves - "Leaves" - website
autumn/leaves - "The Leaves Fall Down" - website
autumn/leaves - "What To Do with Autumn Leaves" - Autumnblings
Aztec/Maya - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing
Aztec/Maya - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing
B
baking - "I Baked a Cake of Sunlight" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 33
baseball - "Baseball's Opening Day" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 99
bathroom antics (flushing toilet, etc.) - "My Secret Karate" - No More Poems!
beaver - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full
bedtime - "Bedtime Snacks" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
being alone - "Sometimes" - Forget-Me-Nots
being happy - "Dust of Snow"- Forget-Me-Nots
being happy - "The Sun" - Forget-Me-Nots
being nice - "The Secret of My Art" - website
being outdoors - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder
bicycle - "Bicycle Dreams" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 133
bicycle - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
bicycle safety - "Bob's Bicyle Helmet" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
BIOGRAPHY poem - "No Idle Days" (about Wm. Carlos Wms.) - Out of Wonder
birds - "Bird Song" CONCRETE - Bird folder
birds - "Frustrations" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
birds - "I Heard a Bird Sing" - Forget-Me-Nots
birds - "Winter Wren" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
birds - funny "Our Canary" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 20
birds/blue jay - "Blue Jay Blues" - Today at the Bluebird Café
birds/crow - "Crow" - Flutter & Hum
birds/grouse - "Puffing up her feathers" - Sweet Dreamers
birds/house - "A household tucked inside a hole" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
birds/hummingbird - "Hummingbird" - Peacock and Other Poems
birds /loons - "The Loon's Laugh - Today at the Bluebird Café
birds/loons - "Loons" - Maine: The Way Life Should Be
birds/many - "Birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings
birds/peacock (haiku) "Peacock" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
birds/pigeons - "Bird Song" CONCRETE - Bird folder (with pigeon adaptation)
birds/ravens - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky
birds/ravens - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween
birds/ravens - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24
birds/what they eat - "Today at the Bluebird Cafe" - Today at the Bluebird Café
birds/woodpecker - "Woodpecker" - Forest Has a Song
birds/woodpecker - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café
books - "Acknowledgments" - Please Bury Me in the Library
books - "Book Plate" - Book Speak!
books - "Books" - website
books - "Calling All Readers" - website, Book Speak!
books - "Giant Bookmobile of Tomorrow" - website, Poem-Mobiles
bridges - "Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US
"Brother" - MaryAnn Hoberman - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17
bubbles - "Bubble Poem" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 16
bubbles - "Pop!" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 55
bubblegum - "Bubble Trouble" - Outside the Box
bugs - "A Dragonfly" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 23
bugs - "Hurt No Living Thing" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 24
bugs - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95
butterflies/monarch - "Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress
butterflies/monarch - "Wintering Over" - The Monarch's Progress
"Buttons" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 303
C
camels - "Camel" (haiku) - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
capitalization & punctuation/NONE - "Knoxville, TN" (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11
cereal - "Picky Eater" Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83
chant - "Barnyard Chat" - The Read Aloud Treasury
chant - "The Popcorn Hop" - The Read Aloud Treasury
Chavez, Cesar/ABOUT - "The Organizer" - Heroes and She-roes
"Chinese New Year" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 18
Chinese New Year - "Celebrating Chinese New Year" - Holiday Stew
Chinese New Year - "Prayer for the Lunar New Year" - Days to Celebrate
"Chocolate" (Mora) - Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!
Cinderella - "Cinderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror
CINQUAIN (2-4-6-8-2) "Courage" - Dictionary for a Better World
CINQUAIN (2-4-6-8-2) three by Tristan Kilko
citizenship - "A Dream Come True" (Heard) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 247
city - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love
Civil War - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US
classics/older - "April Rain Song" (Hughes) Forget-Me-Nots
classics/older - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots
classics/older - "Fog" (Sandburg) Forget-Me-Nots
classics/older - "Hurt No Living Thing" (Rossetti) Blooming Beneath the Sun
classics/older - "I Heard a Bird Sing" (Herford) Forget-Me-Nots
classics/older - "My Shadow" (Stevenson) - website
classics/older - "Night" (Teasdale) - Forget-Me-Nots
classics/older - "Who Has Seen the Wind" (Rossetti) - Blooming Beneath the Sun, Forget-Me-Nots
clothing/sweatshirt - "Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
"Clouds" (Worth) - Peacock and Other Poems
coast/ocean - "On My Island" (Hubbell) APP#1 p. 14
coast/ocean - "Watercolor Maine" APP#1 p. 18
cockroach - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95
coffee-drinking parents - "They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing
coins - "Pocket Change" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117
cold/head cold - Bella Had a New Umbrella" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 19
cold/head cold - "I've Got a Cold Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 20
cold/weather - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air
cold/weather - "Words" - A Chill in the Air
Collins, Billy/ABOUT - "How Billy Collins Writes a Poem" - Out of Wonder
colors - "If I Could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew
colors/black & gray - "What Happens to the Colors? - website
colors/gray - Shades of Gray" - Outside the Box
color/brown - "Sienna" - Tan to Tamarind
colors/green & blue - "Green Fog" - Yellow Elephant
colors/orange - "By the Sea" - Delicious!
color/orange - "Orange Giraffe" - Yellow Elephant
colors/yellow - "In Amarillo, Texas" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
comparisons/old & young - "In Between" - What Are You Glad About? What Are You Mad About?
complaining - "Jane the Complainer" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 56
CONCRETE - "The Flying Leap" (penguin) - Superlative Birds
CONCRETE - "Pop" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 55
CONCRETE - "QuartzQuartzQuartz" - Earthshake
COUPLETS - "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US
COUPLETS - "Poet" - The Underwear Salesman
COUPLETS - "Waiter" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 8
courage - "courage" - Dictionary for a Better World
coyotes - from "Mojave" (Siebert) - APP#1 p. 30
cupcakes - "Cupcakes" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
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dancing - "Why?" (Livingston) APP#1 p. 22
dawn - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes
Day of the Dead - "On the Day of the Dead" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 293
desert - from "Mojave" (Siebert) - APP#1 p. 30
desert - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8
desert - "Sienna" - Tan to Tamarind
desert - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant
Dewey Decimal System - "Looking for a Book: Dialogue With a Librarian" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 319
dialect/southern slave - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters
diary - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!
Dickinson, Emily - "If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking" APP#1 p. 5
dictionary - "Dictionary Doings" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 275
differences - "Kids Who Are Different" - website
dinosaurs - "Dinosaur Dinners" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 259
dinosaurs - "Stegosaurus" - website
dinosaurs - "Trilobite," "Brachytrachelopan," "Quetzalcoatlus", Titanoboa annd Carbonemys" - In the Past
disabilities - "Kids Who Are Different" - website
"Discovery" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun
"Do Not Jump on Ancient Uncles" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 21
dogs (pug, bassett hound, chihuahua, dachshund, german shepherd, poodle, greyhound) Bark in the Park!
dogs - "The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
dogs/service animals - "Brave Dog!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 233
Dracula - "A Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73
"Dragonfly, A" - (Farjen) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 23
"Dragns, Lins/ Red and gold" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 18
Dreams - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky
E
Earth Day - "We Are the Ocean" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 82
earth's formation - "Recipe for Granite" - Earthshake
eggs (Hoberman) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 8
"Eletelophony" (Richards) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17
"Emprer Penguins" (Davies) Grn. Ntbk. pg. 7
epitaphs - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween
everything & anything - "Prayer in My Boot" - website
explorers - "Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography
F
fables - "Fables" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 87
fairy tale/Cinderella - "Cinderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror
family - "Brother" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 17
Farjeon - "There Isn't Time" APP#1 p. 6
farm animals - "Barnyard Chat" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 13
favorite things - "Bedtime Snacks" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
Field, Rachel - "Some People" APP#1 p. 7
"Field Trip" (Singer) - First Food Fight This Fall
figurative language/imagery - "A household tucked inside a hole" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
figurative language/imagery - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
"Fireworks" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun
fish - "Art Class" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
flowers/daisies - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are" - Blooming Beneath the Sun
flowers/tulips - "The Yellow Tulip" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 25
"Fog" (Sandburg) - Forget-Me-Nots & Grn. Ntbk. pg. 4 & APP#1 p. 28
food (oranges/orange juice) "By the Sea" - Delicious!
food (tomatoes) "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Acknowledgments" - Please Bury Me in the Library
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Butterfly" - Silver Seeds
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Calling All Readers" - Book Speak!
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "A Centipede Was Thirsty" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "The Flying Leap" - Superlative Birds
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Kids Who Are Different" - website
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Hurt No Living Thing" - Blooming Beneath the Sun
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - ""In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "march 20" (early spring) - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Mud" - The Read Aloud Treasury
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Snake" - Flutter & Hum
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Sometimes" - Forget-Me-Nots
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Song" - Forest Has a Song
FOR NEXR POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Spring Me" - First Food Fight This Fall
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Toad by the Road" - website, Forget-Me-Nots
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Today at the Bluebird Café" Today at the Bluebird Café
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Treasure Words" - Days to Celebrate
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Weather" - Days to Celebrate
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "What To Do with Autumn Leaves" - Autumnblings
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Winter in the South (by a kid from the north)" - Holiday Stew
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOOGY - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café
FOR NEXT POETRY ANTHOLOGY - "Words" - A Chill in the Air
forest/woods - "Lichens" - Forest Has a Song
forest/woods - "Song" - Forest Has a Song
fossil hunting - "Fossil" - Forest Has a Song
FOUR-LINE RHYME (aaaa) - "Steam Engine" - Clackety Track
Frank, Anne/ABOUT - "Faith of a Mustard Seed" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
Frank, Anne/ABOUT - "This Moment" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
free verse - Knoxville, TN (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11
free verse/no rhyming - "Stone Wall" - website
freedom - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters
frogs - "Frog" (haiku) - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
frogs - "Green Frogs" - Yellow Elephant
frogs - "April (The Frog Moon)" - When the Moon is Full
Frost, Robert - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots
Frost, Robert - "In Hardwood Groves" - website
Frost, Robert - "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" APP#1 p. 9
fun/funny - "Eighteen Flavors" (Silverstein) - APP#1 p. 31
fun/funny - "Eletelephony" (Richards) - APP#1 p. 27
fun/funny - "Homework, Oh, Homework!" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 25
fun/funny - "I Scream!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 201
fun/funny - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20
fun/funny - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 26
fun/funny - "Picky Eater" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83
fun/funny - "Rules" (Kuskin) APP#1 p. 17
funny - "I Played a Game of Golf Today" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
funny - "I'm Stuck to a Magnet" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 77
funny - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box
funny - "My Cockroach" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 95
funny - "My Secret Karate" - No More Poems!
funny - "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
funny - "Pigs" APP#1 p. 10
funny - "The Secret of My Art" - website
funny - "The Woodpecker" - Today at the Bluebird Café
"Fuzzy Wuzzy" (traditional) - The Read Aloud Treasury & Grn. Ntbk. pg. 12
G
garden - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween
geography/equator - Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography
geography/horizon - "Horizon" - Got Geography
geography/latitude & longitude - "Latitude Longitude Dreams" - Got Geography
giraffe - "Orange Giraffe" - Yellow Elephant
going wrong - "My Pencil will Not Write" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
"Golden Gate Bridge" - website, The Poetry of US
grandmothers - "Abuelita Is My Grandma" - I Call My Grandma Nana
grandmothers - "My Mamie Likes Hummingbirds" I Call My Grandma Nana
gratitude - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew
greenery/ferns - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song
Groundhog Day - "A Groundhog Speaks" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 68
Groundhog Day - "groundhog" - Days to Celebrate
Groundhog Day - "Groundhognostiation" - The Poetry of US
Groundhog Day - "Mr. Groundhog" (Yolen) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 57
H
HAIKU - "Vhovolsyr" - Yum! MmMm! Que Rico!
HAIKU - "Camel" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKU - "Frog" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKU - "Mole" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKU - "Oyster" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKU - "Peacock" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKY - "Spring" - V
HAIKU - "Zebra" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
HAIKU (Six of them) - Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 36
Halloween - Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73
Halloween - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air
Halloween - "Lone Star Witches" - Hallowilloween
Halloween - "Old Napolean" - Hallowilloween
"Hand-Me-Down Sweatshirt" (Schertle) - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
happy - "Why?" (Livingston) APP#1 p. 22
happy, being - "The Sun" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 2
harvest "Thanksgiving" - Grn. Ntbk. pg. 28
hats - "Hats Off to Hat Day" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 37
helping others - "Nicholas Cobb" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
helping others - "Ripples" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
heroes - "Heroes and She-roes" (Lewis) Heroes and She-roes
history/Mexico/Maya - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing
history/US - "Pocket Change" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117
"Horizon" (Yolen) - Got Geography
homework - "Homework, Oh, Homework!" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 25
homework - "If I Had No Homework" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 18
horse - "The horse dreams standing up" - Sweet Dreamers
Hughes, Langston - "April Rain Song" APP#1 p. 15
I
"I" POEMS - "Bob's Bicycle Helmet" - Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
"I" POEMS - "Faith of a Mustard Seed" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
"I" POEMS - "Ice-Cream Cone" - Dear Hot Dog
"I" POEMS - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder
"I" POEMS - "Painter" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
ice cream - "Eighteen Flavors" (Silverstein) - APP#1 p. 31
ice cream - "I Scream!" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 201
"If I Had a hundred dollars to spend" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 1
immigrants/citizenship - "A Dream Come Ture" (Heard) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 247
immigration - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters
island living - "On My Island" (Hubbell) APP#1 p. 14
island living - "Watercolor Maine" APP#1 p. 18
J
jackalopes - "The Jackalope" - The Poetry of US
"January" (Foster) Sing a Song of Seasons
Jim Crow - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters
journal writing - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!
Judaic/Rosh Hashanah - "Casting Away Sins" - Every Month Is a New Year
K
"Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" (DeRegniers) - Sing a Song of Seasons
"Kids Who Are Different" (Digby Wolfe) - website
Kilko, Tristan - three cinquains
kindness - "How to Love Your Little Corner of the World" (Spinelli) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 61
kindness - "Kindness" - Dictionary for a Better World
kindness/empathy - "Empathy" - Dictionary for a Better World
Kuskin, Karla - "Rules" APP#1 p. 17
L
Labor Day - "It's Labor Day" - Holiday Stew
Labor Day - "Labor Day" - Days to Celebrate
Labor Day - "My Father Woke Us Early" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p.
Lear - "An Old Man with a Beard (limerick) APP#1 p. 19
leaves - "Leaf Dance" (Harrison) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 253
leaves - "Leaves" (Gerstein) - website
leaves - "The Leaves Fall Down" - website
leaves - "October" - Tap Dancing on the Roof
leaves turning - "october 15" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
legend/Mexican - "Rabbit in the Moon" - The Ancestors Are Singing
libraries - "The Library" - website
libraries - "Looking for a Book: Dialogue With a Librarian" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 319
libraries - "Necessary Gardens" - Please Bury Me in the Library
life (goes by so fast) - "There Isn't Time" APP#1 p. 6
life cycles/butterflies - "The Monarch Beginnings" - The Monarch's Progress
limerick - "An Old Man with a Beard - APP#1 p. 19
LIST POEM - "birds of Autumn" - Autumnblings
LIST POEM - "The Greater Sum of Parts" - website
LIST POEM - "The Museum Door" (Hopkins) - APP#1 p. 13
LIST POEM - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun
LIST POEM - "Prayer in My Boot" - website
LIST POEM - "Take a Number" - website
LIST POEM - "Things Not To Do" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 149
LIST POEM - "Tomates = Toatoes" - Gathering the Sun
LIST POEM - "Tree Song" - website
LIST POEM - "What I Hate About Autumn" - Autumnblings
LIST POEM - "What I Love About Autumn" Autumnblings
LIST POEM - "What To Do About Autumn" - Autumnblings
lizard - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant
lobsters - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
M
magnets - "I'm Stuck to a Magnet" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 77
Maine - "There's a Lady in Galoshes" - In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
Maine - "Watercolor Maine" - APP#1 p. 18
making a difference - "Heroes and She-roes" - Heroes and She-roes
making a difference - "Nicholas Cobb" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
making a difference - "Ripples" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
making a differenct - "Making a Difference" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 82
"Marathon Runner" (Lewis) - The Underwear Salesman
math/money - "The Animal Store" - Forget-Me-Nots
mathematics - "Horizon" - Got Geography
mathematics - "My Snake Can Do Arithmetic" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
mathematics - "Take a Number" - website
Maya/Aztec - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing
Maya/Aztec - "Old Palaces" - The Ancestors Are Singing
melting pot - "Heah Y'all Come" - We Trouble the Waters
METAPHOR - "Clouds" - Peacock and Other Poems
METAPHOR - "CLOUDS" - Silver Seeds
METAPHOR - "Fireworks" - Swing Around the Sun
METAPHOR - "How to Eat a Poem" - APP#1 p. 23
METAPHOR - "In the Land of Words" - website
METAPHOR - "January" - Sing a Song of Seasons
METAPHOR - "Kindness" - Dictionary for a Better World
METAPHOR - "Owl" - Flutter & Hum
METAPHOR- "Pencils" - Days to Celebrate
METAPHOR - "Poems" (Katz) APP#1 p. 16
Mexican/Hispanic - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun
Mexican/Hispanic - "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun
migrant workers - "The Organizer" - Heroes and She-roes
mindfulness - "A Walk in the Woods" (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21
moles - "Mole" (haiku) - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
monarch butterfly - "Wintering Over" - The Monarch's Progress
money - "Pocket Change)- Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 117
moon - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box
moon - "The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" - website
moon - "Rabbit in the Moon" - The Ancestors Are Singing
moon/full - "April (The Frog Moon)" - When the Moon is Full
moon/full - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full
moose - "Moose on the Bus" - Outside the Box
moral - "Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween
"Mother's Plea" (Hopkins) - City I Love
mud - "Mud" - The Read Aloud Treasury
mud - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20
mud - "Ode to Muddy Puddles" (de Roo) website
museums - "Museum of Anthropology" - The Ancestors Are Singing
museums - "The Museum Door (Hopkins) - APP#1 p. 13
museums/art - "Field Trip" - First Food Fight This Fall
music making - "Make a Joyful Noise" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 263
"My Pencil Will Not Write" (everything's going wrong) I've Lost My Hippopotamus
"My Secret Karate" (bathroom antics) - No More Poems!
"My Shadow" (Stevenson) - website
N
nature - "A Walk in the Woods" (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21
new year - "New Year Is Here" (Nesbitt) Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 29
new year - "The Year Turns" - Every Month Is a New Year
new year's resolutions - "On the Last Day of December" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 30
nighttime - "Night" - Forget-Me-Nots
nighttime - "Owl" - Flutter & Hum
nighttime - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor
numbers - "Take a Number" - website
O
observations - "Prayer in My Boot" - website
ocean - "august 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
"October" (Park) - Tap Dancing on the Roof
O'Keeffe, Georgia/ABOUT - "Painter" - Dare to Dream...Change the World
"Old Palaces" (Johnston) - The Ancestors Are Singing
Oliver, Mary/ABOUT - "(Loving) The World and Everything In It" - Out of Wonder
otters - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
outer space - "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126
P
PA - Gettysburg - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US
PA -Gobbler's Knob - "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US
paint-a-picture - "Balloon Car" - Poem-Mobiles
paint-a-picture - "february 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
paint-a-picture - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are - Blooming Beneath the Sun
painting-a-poem- "If I Could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew
paleontology - "Dinosaur Dinners" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 259
pasta - "Ready for Spaghetti" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 277
parents - "They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing
pencils - "Pencils" - Days to Celebrate
penguins - "Diary of a Very Short Winter Day" - website
penguins/emperor - "Emperor Penguins" - website
penguins/emperor - "Emperor Penguins" - website
penguins/emperor - "The Flying Leap" - Superlative Birds
people - "Some People" APP#1 p. 7
PERSONIFICATION- "april 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
PERSONIFICATION - "Fog" - Forget-Me-Nots and APP#1 p. 28
PERSONIFICATION - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box
PERSONIFICATION - "Stone Wall" - website
PERSONIFICATION - "SUN" - Silver Seeds
PERSONIFICATION - "Woodpecker" - Forest Has a Song
pets - "I'm Allergic to My Puppy" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 28
"Picky Eater" (Esenwine) - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 83
pigeons - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love
pigs - "Pigs" (Ghigna) APP#1 p. 10
pizza - "Pizza Week Menu" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 35
play on another poem/Frost - "Acknowledgments" - Please Bury Me in the Library
poetry - "Poetry" - website
poetry/loving - "Keep a Poem in Your Pocket" ' Sing a Song of Seasons
poetry/memorizing - "A Poem for the Reader" - website
poetry/poem - "How to Eat a Poem" (Merriam) APP#1 p. 23
poetry/poems - "Poems" (Katz) APP#1 p. 16
poetry/poems/writing - "Some Reasons to Write a Poem" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 103
poetry/writing - "Poet" - The Underwear Salesman
poetry/writing - "How Billy Collins Writes a Poem" - Out of Wonder
poetry/writing - "How to Write a Poem" (abt. Naomi Shihab Nye) - Out of Wonder
poetry/writing - "Poetry" - website
poetry/writing - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots APP#1 p 12
poetry/writing - "Windsong" - Sing a Song of Seasons
poets/many mentioned - "Acknowledgments" - Please Bury Me in the Library
pond - "November (The Beaver Moon) - When the Moon is Full
popcorn - "The Popcorn Hop" - The Read Aloud Treasury
Prelutsky - "Homework! Oh, Homework!" - APP#1 p. 25
Prelutsky - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" - APP#1 p. 26
PREPOSITION POEM - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes
pride - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun
puddles - "The Muddy Puddle" (Lee) APP#1 p. 20
Punxsutawney Phil - "Groundhognostication" - The Poetry of US
Q
"QuartzQuartzQuartz" (Peters) - Earthshake
QUATRAIN - "Abuelita Is My Grandma" - I Call My Grandma Nana
QUATRAIN - "My amie Likes Hummingbirds" - I Call My Grandma Nana
QUESTION poems - "Man in the Moon" - Outside the Box
QUESTION poems - "What Happens to the Colors?" - website
R
rain - "April Rain Song" - Forget-Me-Nots
rain - "Crow" - Flutter & Hum
rain - "Rain" - The Read Aloud Treasury
reading - "Calling All Readers" - website
reading - "Giant Bookmobile of Tomorrow" - website
reading - "Stop! Let's Read" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 115
relax/rest - "A Walk in the Woods (Lesser) APP#1 p. 21
repetition - "Earth, What Will You Give Me?" - Days to Celebrate
repetition - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots and APP#1 p.12
repetition - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor
repetition, rhyme, & rhythm - "A House is a House for Me - The Read Aloud Treasury
REVERSO Poem - "Chiderella's Double Life" - Mirror, Mirror
rhythm - "Today at the Bluebird Cafe" - Today at the Bluebird Café
rocks & minerals - "QuartzQuartzQuartz" - Earthshake
rocks & minerals - "Recipe for Granite" - Earthshake
Rosh Hashanah - "Casting Away Sins" - Every Month Is a New Year
rules - "Rules" (Kuskin) APP#1 p. 17
rules - "Things Not To Do" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 149
S
safety/bicycle - 'Bob's Bicycle Helmet" Button Up! Wrinkled Rhymes
saguaro - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8
saguaro - "Storms in Oaxaca" - v
"Scarecrow's Epitaph" - Hallowilloween
seasons/all - "Earth, What Will You Give Me?" - Days to Celebrate
senses - "Welcome to the Night" - Dark Emperor
service animals/dogs - "Brave Dog! - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 233
shadows - "My Shadow" - website
Shakespeare - "Sonnet 18" - APP#1 p. 29
sick, feeling - "I've Got a Cold" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 20
silly - "Balloon Car" - Poem-Mobiles
silly - "The Poodles Ate Oodles of Noodles"- In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
Silverstein - "Eighteen Flavors" - APP#1 p. 31
SIMILE - "Ice-Cream Cone" - Dear Hot Dog
SIMILE - "Leaves" - website
SIMILE - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
SIMILE - "Poetry" - website
SIMILE - "Where Innocent Bright-Eyed Daisies Are" - Blooming Beneath the Sun
size comparison - "august 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
skies/sky - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24
skywatching - "I'm Gazing Through My Telescope" - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
slavery - "Cleanin Gal" - We Trouble the Waters
slavery/escaping - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate
sleeping (sloth, horse, grouse) - Sweet Dreamers
sloth - "Slung like a hammock..." - Sweet Dreamers
snakes - "Snake" (Pashkis) - Flutter & Hum
snakes - "Titanoboand Carbonemys" - In the Past
snow - "Footprints" - A Chill in the Air
snow - "April Waking" (Vanderwater) - Forest Has a Song
snow - "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" - APP#1 p. 9
snow/first snow - "White Sound" - website from Sing a Song of Seasons
snow/first snow - "december 29" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
snow/not enough - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air
snowmen - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air
"Socks"(Gerstein) - Dear Hot Dog
song/chant - "Doing Song" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
song tune (Take Me Out to the Ballgame) They're Full of Beans" - Too Much Kissing
Sonoran Desert - "Legends of the Sonoran Desert" - The Poetry of US
Sonoran Desert - "Storms in Oaxaca" - The Ancestors Are Singing
Sonoran Desert - "This Big Sky" - This Big Sky
Sonoran Desert - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8
Sonoran Desert - "Turquoise Lizard" - Yellow Elephant
sounds - "Song" - Forest Has a Song
sounds - "Mother's Plea" - City I Love
sounds/nature - "Frustrations" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
sounds/nature - "The Loon's Laugh" - Today at the Bluebird Café
SW/canyons - "This Big Sky" (Mora) - APP#1 p. 24
SW/southwest - "My Desert Home" APP#1 p. 8
spaghetti - "Ready for Spaghetti" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 277
Spanish to English - "Orgullo = Pride" - Gathering the Sun
Spanish to English - Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun
spider's web - "Dew on a Spider's Web" Grn. Ntbk. pg. 25
sports/running - "Marathon Runner" - The Underwear Salesman
spring - "(A haiku)" - The Robin Makes a Laughing Sound
spring - "If I could Paint a Springtime Day" - Holiday Stew
spring - "Toad by the Road" - website
spring awakening - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song
spring/first signs - "march 20" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
spring fever - "Spring Me!" - First Food Fight This Fall
star inside apple - "Discovery" - Swing Around the Sun
stars - "september 10" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
"Stone Wall" - website
"Storm" (Esbensen) - Swing Around the Sun
"Storms in Oacaca" (Johnston) - The Ancestors Are Singing
summer - "Knoxville, TN" (Giovanni) APP#1 p. 11
summer storm - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun
sun - "The Sun" - Forget-Me-Nots
sunrise - "In the Almost Light" - Butterfly Eyes
T
teachers/heroes - "The Elementary School Teacher - Heroes and She-roes
teachers/funny - "The Aliens Have Landed" - website
Texas - Lone Star Witches" - Hallowilloween
thankfulness - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew
Thanksgiving - "I'm Thankful for the Sunshine" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 109
Thanksgiving - "Send Up Some Gratitude" - Holiday Stew
Thanksgiving - "Thanksgiving Dinner" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 70
toad - "Toad by the Road" - website, Forget-Me-Nots
tomatoes - "Tomates = Tomatoes" - Gathering the Sun
tongue-twister - "April Waking" - Forest Has a Song
tongue-twister - "Eletelephony" (Richards) - APP#1 p. 27
"Toothbrush" (Gerstein) - Dear Hot Dog
traditional - "Fuzzy Wuzzy" - The Read Aloud Treasury
trains - "Steam Engine" - Clackety Track
"Trees" (Coleridge) - website
"Trees" (Kilmer) - website
trees - "Evergreen" - website
trees - "In Hardwood Groves" - website
trees - "The Tree on the Corner" - website
trees - "Tree Song" (Lyon) - website
trees/spruce - "february 3"- When Green Becomes Tomatoes
trees/survival - "What Do the Trees Know?" - Winter Bees
trick or treating - "A Band of Trick-or-Treaters" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 73
trilobites - "Fossil" - Forest Has a Song
trilobites - "Trilobite" - In the Past
TRIPLETS - "What Do the Trees Know?" - Winter Bees
Tubman, Harriet - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate
TWO VOICES - "Voice" - Dictionary for a Better World
U
UFOs- "There Are Things Out There" Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky) p. 126
Underground Railroad - "Freedom!" - Days to Celebrate
V
verbs/snazzy - "Otters loll like whiskered boats" - Nest, Nook & Cranny
W
war/Gettysburg/Civil War - "Silent Sentinel" - The Poetry of US
weather/cold - "Words" - A Chill in the Air
weather/fog - "Fog" (Sandburg) - APP#1 p. 28
weather/general - "Weather" - Days to Celebrate
weather/gray day - "april 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
weather/gray day - "It's an Ugly Day" - A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
weather/rain - "April Rain Song" - Forget-Me-Nots
weather/rain - "Rain" (Stevenson) - The Read Aloud Treasury
weather/rain - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun
weather/snow - "Footprints" - A Chill in the Air
weather/snow - "A Sprinkling of Snow" - A Chill in the Air
weather/summer storm - "Storm" - Swing Around the Sun
weather/wind - "Who Has Seen the Wind?" - Blooming Beneath the Sun, Forget-Me-Nots
winter - "Dust of Snow" - Forget-Me-Nots
winter - "february 3" - When Green Becomes Tomatoes
winter night - "Night" - Forget-Me-Nots
winter night - "Pine Tree Tops" - website
winter/in the south - "Winter in the South (by a kid from the north)" - Holiday Stew
witches - "A Cold October Night" - A Chill in the Air
witches - "Lone Str Witches" - Hallowilloween
wonderful words (vocab) - "My Gerbil Seemed Bedraggled" (Prelutsky) - APP#1 p. 26
"Words" (Frank) - A Chill in the Air
words - "Books" - website
words - "Dictionary Doings" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 275
words - "In the Land of Words" - website
words - "Treasure Words" - Days to Celebrate
words - "Voice" - Dictionary for a Better World
writing in a diary - "Top Secret" - Book Speak!
writing/writing poems - "Some Reasons to Write a Poem" - Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell) p. 103
writing poems - "Things" - Forget-Me-Nots
XYZ
YA - "Prayer in My Boot" (Nye) - website
zebra - "Zebra" (haiku) - I've Lost My Hippopotamus
Included:
all website poetry
green notebook - partially done
APP#1
Hard-Boiled Eggs for Bkfst (Prelutsky)
Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Vardell)
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