Over the months here a number of us have mentioned favourite poems a few times so here's your chance to share yours! Funny, scary... anything goes!

I already posted a link to The Gruffalo in another topic, but here it is for those that missed it;

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/txt/1616.txt

Those who know me know I love The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe so when I found this the other day;
http://www.librarysystems.com/midnight.htm
I couldn't help but laugh!! :lol:

I'm not a big poetry guy myself (most of it goes swoosh! right over my head). But a couple of favorites from my English Lit class were "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "They", two WWI poems.

And I've always liked poems from "Where the Sidewalk Ends." :P

Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac

All dressed in black, black, black.

With silver buttons, buttons, buttons

All down her back, back, back.

She asked her mother, mother, mother

For 50 cents, cents, cents.

To see the elephants, elephants, elephants

Jump over the fence, fence, fence.

They jumped so high, high, high

They reached the sky, sky, sky

They never came back, back, back

Till the 4th of July, July, July.

Can a parrot
Eat a carrot
Standing on his head?
If I did that my mum would send me
Straight upstairs to bed.

- Spike Milligan

LOL! I guess all this time I didn't know Kath because I didn't know (or rather, didn't remember, since I replied to this topic!) that she like the Raven!

But don't I seem smart with my choices of WWI poetry (they really are good, though!)? :P

That Grufallo poem reminds me of something from Where the Sidewalk Ends, too.

This was just on and it reminded me of this topic, so here's a link to the Simpsons version of The Raven:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2cF5q_TEHY