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| What do Poems do? | |
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| Make You Smile | |
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| Crunchy | |
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| Commas | |
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| My Mother Took Me Skating | |
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| Learning | |
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| There Was a Man | |
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| Algy | |
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| The Termite | |
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| Spring is sprung | |
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| The Ceiling | |
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| Miss McGillicuddy | |
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| Knitted Things | |
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| Getting Together | |
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| Tell Stories | |
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| A Peanut sat on a railroad track | |
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| The Knowledgeable Child | |
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| The Purist | |
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| What Has Happened to Lulu? | |
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| Coyote Blue | |
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| But Only the Breeze ... | |
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| The Outlaw | |
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| A Story That Could Be True | |
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| Mummy Slept Late and Daddy Fixed Breakfast | |
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| John Henry | |
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| Send Messages | |
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| Before Starting | |
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| Smokescreen | |
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| Subway Rush Hour | |
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| The Golf Links | |
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| Spectacular | |
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| Childhood | |
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| Poor | |
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| Raccoon | |
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| Landscape | |
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| A word is dead | |
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| Oh, God of dust and rainbows | |
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| Time to Plant Trees | |
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| Share Feelings | |
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| Christmas morning i | |
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| And Stands There Sighing | |
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| My Brother | |
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| Leave Me Alone | |
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| Look Out! | |
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| Zimmer in Grade School | |
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| Losing Face | |
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| The 1st | |
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| Listening to grownups quarreling | |
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| Hide and Seek | |
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| The Hurt Doe | |
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| An Historic Moment | |
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| Country School | |
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| While I Slept | |
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| Help You Understand People | |
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| People | |
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| Puerto Ricans in New York | |
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| Narcissa | |
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| The Knowing One | |
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| The Park People | |
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| Myrtle | |
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| Two People | |
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| Mama's Bouquets | |
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| My Mother | |
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| Dad | |
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| Sundays | |
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| Grandmother | |
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| Start You Wondering | |
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| Magnet | |
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| Key Ring | |
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| The Magical Mouse | |
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| Daniel Boone | |
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| The White Horse | |
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| The Child on the Shore | |
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| A Boat | |
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| Winter Song | |
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| Green Candles | |
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| The Old Stone House | |
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| What's Inside a Poem? | |
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| Images | |
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| Good Hot Dogs | |
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| My Fingers | |
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| September | |
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| Bull snake rattle | |
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| Surprise | |
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| Waiting for the Storm | |
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| Snowy Benches | |
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| Peach | |
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| Spruce Woods | |
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| The Runner | |
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| This Is a Night | |
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| Earthy Anecdote | |
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| Word Music | |
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| Winter Ocean | |
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| Saying Dante Aloud | |
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| Flittermice | |
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| The Skaters | |
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| Rain | |
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| Julius Caesar | |
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| The pickety fence | |
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| Mice Are Nice | |
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| My Old Cat | |
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| Stories | |
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| Analysis of Baseball | |
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| Football | |
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| Beats That Repeat | |
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| We Real Cool | |
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| The Ostrich Is a Silly Bird | |
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| Windy Nights | |
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| Windy Nights | |
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| Windshield Wiper | |
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| I am Rose | |
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| Canis Major | |
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| Paleface | |
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| The opposite of kite, I'd say | |
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| My Half | |
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| Blackberry Sweet | |
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| Triolet Against Sisters | |
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| Likenesses | |
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| Fireflies | |
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| Porch Light | |
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| Child Frightened by a Thunderstorm | |
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| The house-wreckers | |
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| Wind and Silver | |
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| Dreams | |
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| Stars | |
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| Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog | |
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| The Horses of the Sea | |
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| The Eagle | |
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| Splinter | |
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| Dry Winter | |
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| Spill | |
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| The Wind | |
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| Word Play | |
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| Sing Me a Song of Teapots and Trumpets | |
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| In Just- | |
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| My auntie | |
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| Plant Life | |
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| Song of the Pop-bottlers | |
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| Chess Nut | |
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| Crickets | |
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| Did you eever, iver, over? | |
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| Auk Talk | |
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| Notice to Myself | |
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| I Wave Good-bye When Butter Flies | |
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| Special Kinds of Poetry | |
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| Limericks | |
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| A bridge engineer, Mr. Crumpett | |
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| There was an old person of Skye | |
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| Well, it's partly the shape of the thing | |
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| How awkward while playing with glue | |
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| April Fool | |
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| A piggish young person from Leeds | |
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| There was a young lady from Lynn | |
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| There was a Young Lady named Rose | |
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| There was a young lady of Twickenham | |
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| There was an old man from Peru | |
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| Blessed Lord, what it is to be young | |
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| Takeoffs | |
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| Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! | |
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| This is lust to Say | |
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| Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams | |
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| Clementine | |
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| In a cavern, in a canyon | |
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| Sing a Song of Sixpence | |
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| Sing a Song of Subways | |
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| We four lads | |
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| Songs | |
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| Riddle Song | |
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| I Had a Little Nut Tree | |
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| On Top of Old Smoky | |
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| Blowin' in the Wind | |
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| Show-and-Spell Poems | |
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| The Dancing Bear | |
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| You Can Talk About Your Hummingbirds | |
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| The Sidewalk Racer | |
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| Waterwheels in whirl | |
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| Fury said to a mouse | |
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| Seashells | |
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| For a Quick Exit | |
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| Concrete Cat | |
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| Handsawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww | |
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| Finders-Keepers Poems | |
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| Gate | |
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| Yield | |
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| The lake was covered all over | |
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| 4-Way Stop | |
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| Genuine Poem, Found on a Blackboard in a Bowling Alley in Story City, Iowa | |
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| Haiku | |
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| Ancient pool | |
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| A bantam rooster | |
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| Now the swing is still | |
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| Out after dark | |
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| Midnight sirens | |
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| Tunnel | |
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| The green cockleburs | |
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| After weeks of watching the roof leak | |
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| Bang! the starter's gun | |
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| August | |
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| Do it Yourself | |
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| Writing Your Own Poems | |
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| Ideas | |
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| Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around | |
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| Rope Rhyme | |
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| That Old Haunted House | |
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| On the one-ton temple bell | |
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| Do It Yourself | |
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| Afterword to Adults | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Encouraging Children to Like Poetry | |
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| When Kids Write Their Own Poems | |
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| For People Who Work with Groups | |
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| Index of Authors | |
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| Index of Titles | |
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| Index of First Lines | |
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| Acknowledgments | |