While looking for a poem to start the year with, I visited the homepage of one of our textbook's editors. It made me happy, so I'm sharing. I imagine Dorothy and X. J. are pretty fun grandparents. I'd like to visit their half century-old/half new house in Massachusetts. See http://xjanddorothymkennedy.com for more.
New Verse for Kids
Illustration by Josh Kennedy
Down the trunk of an elephant, Daredevil Jed
With incredible speed took a slide on his sled
At a time when that pachyderm, lunching on hay,
Was happily tucking a bundle away.
Off that doubled-up nose-hose, poor Jed shot the
chutes—
Blubbery brutes have such rubbery snoots.
A Needed Invention
For safety’s sake, each jumbo jet
Should travel with a safety net
Suspended from its underbelly
Or racing on the ground below it
To break its fall or slightly slow it,
Sort of an upside-down umbrelly
For safety’s sake, each jumbo jet
Should travel with a safety net
Suspended from its underbelly
Or racing on the ground below it
To break its fall or slightly slow it,
Sort of an upside-down umbrelly
I have to credit my own grandparents, all four of them, for sharing a love of silly verse.
