All posts in category Children’s Poetry
My country cousins live better than me
Posted by Tom Busillo on April 22, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/04/22/my-country-cousins-live-better-than-me/
The Amazing Replacement Moth
Posted by Tom Busillo on March 14, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/03/14/the-amazing-replacement-moth/
Who Says a Smolt Can’t be a Smelt?
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 29, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/02/29/who-says-a-smolt-cant-be-a-smelt/
A Heads Up on the Screw Up
Posted by Tom Busillo on February 23, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/02/23/a-heads-up-on-the-screw-up/
The Spider-Caller
if you wake up dizzy spinning in your bed it could be that a spider’s making cobwebs in your head you’ll need a spider-caller her name is Madame Redd her services are free that’s how she keeps her lizard fed
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 29, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/29/the-spider-caller/
City Fishing
sardines from a can on the end of a string pierced with a hook what’s that gonna bring dangling from a window you won’t catch a thing hungry hands and fingers and fingers have rings!
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 28, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/28/city-fishing/
The Most Important Part of the Room – The Blinds
the Doge of the Venetian Blinds decides, decides, decides, decides how much light will we let in will we be fat or very thin though once we’re set we are forgotten without our help there’s no light brought in if the sun’s the bride and the eye’s the groom then we’re the most important part [...]
Posted by Tom Busillo on January 14, 2012
http://monsterbegood.com/2012/01/14/the-most-important-part-of-the-room-the-blinds/
The Bell People
The bell people, they didn’t ring, They didn’t talk, they didn’t sing. They didn’t whine, make a kerfluffle, All they really did was shuffle. They walked in packs, with footsteps neat, All you could see was their feet. They’d walk through town on each Bell Day Silently shuffling, then away.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 30, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/30/the-bell-people/
[Have you seen my cork?]
Have you seen my cork? I’m asking cause I’m ill. I’ve lost my cork and fallen down, Now all I do is spill.
Posted by Tom Busillo on December 25, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/12/25/have-you-seen-my-cork/
do you have any rain to wring?
do you have, do you have any rain to wring? it must be rain, rain-soaked, rain-filled – not any old wet thing I specialize in wringing rain the rain-wring is my thing so, do you have, please, do you have any rain to wring? I wrote this poem in my head Sunday getting off the [...]
Posted by Tom Busillo on November 26, 2011
http://monsterbegood.com/2011/11/26/do-you-have-any-rain-to-wring/

