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Please help in choosing the right poem for English recitation

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  1. shruthipraveen

    shruthipraveen Platinum IL'ite

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    Dear Friends,
    Please help me choose a simple 6-8 line poem for my daughter's English recitation poem. She is in std 1. I been searching so much but not able to find.
    Thankyou so much in advance.
     
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  2. Dinny

    Dinny IL Hall of Fame

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    Try these

    This is cite for a boy, and short enough for a little guy:


    THE WORM
    Ralph Bergengren
    When the earth is turned in spring
    The worms are fat as anything.
    And birds come flying all around
    To eat the worms right off the ground.
    They like worms just as much as I
    Like bread and milk and apple pie.
    And once, when I was very young,
    I put a worm right on my tongue.
    I didn't like the taste a bit,
    And so I didn't swallow it.
    But oh, it makes my Mother squirm
    Because she thinks I ate that worm!



    The Naughty Boy
    by John Keats

    There was a naughty boy,
    And a naughty boy was he,
    He ran away to Scotland
    The people for to see-
    There he found
    That the ground
    Was as hard,
    That a yard
    Was as long,
    That a song
    Was as merry,
    That a cherry
    Was as red,
    That lead
    Was as weighty,
    That fourscore
    Was as eighty,
    That a door
    Was as wooden
    As in England-
    So he stood in his shoes
    And he wonder'd,
    He wonder'd,
    He stood in his
    Shoes and he wonder'd.
     
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  3. GoogleGlass

    GoogleGlass IL Hall of Fame

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    That's great - our poetess has already graced the thread :)
     
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  4. Dinny

    Dinny IL Hall of Fame

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    Who is the poetess here???
    Not me....
    so it you GoogleGee?? :bowdown:

    Btw to avoid ILites misunderstanding me, i have mentioned the name of the poets with those poems :)
    Not original like your's....lol.
     
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    GoogleGlass IL Hall of Fame

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    It is you.

    If it was me I would have said Poet - gender issue :)
     
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    Dinny IL Hall of Fame

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    Well who knows you could be a poetess too :biglaugh:

    Okay this is my forum and i am not derailing this thread.
     
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    don't expect me to say ess to the poet-ess claim:)

    Sorry SP for deviating/derailing.

    Let me wear my good guy hat :)

    Refer this site - has plenty of poems for kids under several categories - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry for Kids
     
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    shruthipraveen Platinum IL'ite

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    Thankyou Dinny for the response. And GoogleGlass, I do accept your apologies!
     
  9. Onesweetlife

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    Hi...

    below is the poem that was given to us in I std for recitation competition.


    What Does Little Birdie Say?

    What does little birdie say,
    In her nest at peep of day?
    "Let me fly," says little birdie,
    "Mother, let me fly away."

    "Birdie, rest a little longer,
    Till the little wings are stronger."
    So she rests a little longer,
    Then she flies away.

    -Alfred Tennyson

    All the best for your DD
     

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