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I love how grouchy and mean these poems are.
Most of these poems are taken from well known tales and nursery rhymes - Jack and the Beanstalk, Humpty Dumpty, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, The Little Train, etc. - and many of these poems made me laugh out loud.
I pushed your boat out of the gentle stream/where you were merrily singing and rowing/Forgive me life is but a nightmare
I have chewed through the tall beanstalk/which you recently stepped off way up there/Forgive me I think I'm worth more than five magic beans
There are quite a few more than I noted because they made me laugh - that loud, I-wasn't-expecting-that kind of laugh.
Would I have been as giddily cynical at nine? I'm not sure. I think I enjoyed this more as an adult than I would have back then. Maybe I'll test it out on my daughter in a few years.
Most of these poems are taken from well known tales and nursery rhymes - Jack and the Beanstalk, Humpty Dumpty, Row, Row, Row Your Boat, The Little Train, etc. - and many of these poems made me laugh out loud.
I pushed your boat out of the gentle stream/where you were merrily singing and rowing/Forgive me life is but a nightmare
I have chewed through the tall beanstalk/which you recently stepped off way up there/Forgive me I think I'm worth more than five magic beans
There are quite a few more than I noted because they made me laugh - that loud, I-wasn't-expecting-that kind of laugh.
Would I have been as giddily cynical at nine? I'm not sure. I think I enjoyed this more as an adult than I would have back then. Maybe I'll test it out on my daughter in a few years.
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