Is poet Kaye Starbird alive? (Born in 1916)
Lenona
years, but one book jacket - from 1979 - gives her address as Fort
Lauderdale. (She's lived all over the States.)
She's written six books. The last one - "Grandmother Goose's Recycled
Rhymes," was published in 1988.
In "Don't Ever Cross a Crocodile," there's a poem about a little girl
and her friend, who reads too much. Last two stanzas:
The second time I went to play,
I thought we'd see some sights,
But Maisie sat around all day
And read "King Arthur's Knights."
And later on I had to hear
About some queen named Guinevere
Who loved a knight named Lancelot
A guy who took a chance a lot
And got into a jam a lot
Around a place called Camelot.
I'm here to tell you no one needs
A friend who either talks or reads;
So this I'd really like to say:
Unless you like to waste the day,
Then lie and yawn
Till nearly dawn
When all your thoughts are hazy...
Take my advice
And just think twice
Before you visit Maisie.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/tony.htm
(a pretty funny and witty poem about a 4-year-old too smart in school
for his own good)
http://www.brownielocks.com/kidpoems.html
(more than halfway down is her poem on oysters - this site includes
Ogden Nash & Shel Silverstein and it's called "Funny, Dumb, Silly Kid
(Children's) Poems about Food.")
And, "The Hound":
It's funny to look at a hurrying hound,
Pursuing a scent that's attractive.
He gallops around
With his nose to the ground
And only the back of him active.
Lenona.