April Fools' Day Kids' Poem

As the saying goes... April showers bring May flowers... but this month actually brings much more than that. Starting out with April Fools' Day and Poetry Month on the very first day brings opportunity for ample fun, foolishness, and sets the stage for 30 days of continued poetic creativity.

In doing my part to celebrate April 2013, I will attempt to post a poem a day in this blog. Writing a poem every single day for a predetermined period is a task I have been considering for quite a while; and now it is time for me to take the bull by the horns...

Therefore, here goes...

The poem I decided to start with is a children's April Fools' Day contribution that allows me to hone in on the importance of April's first day.

April Fool’s Day Classroom Trick

Zipped to class late

On April Fools Day

And bee-lined for my seat when

Jim Bob who sits across from me said

Sally had a secret

Seated behind Sally

I asked

If she would give me details

She said as long as I didn’t tell

A soul of its essentials

Sally commenced to pen a note

Pencil a pic as well

On line paper as

Teacher taught

Then tossed it near my chair

I snatched it quick

‘Fore teacher looked

As if it were a dare

I felt like Wily big bad wolf

With piglets in my lair

Quickly my eyes

Digest memo

Intrigued with contents and photo

Then teacher steps up to my desk

Says, “Share your

Prose with all the rest,

Of class that is,

We’d like to know

What pleasures you

More than my board…”

My teeth chatter

Reading aloud

How teacher’s pet

Gets tripped up

On April Fool’s Day

And how the teacher

Joins classmates for fool’s fun

I realize the teacher’s pet

In the note must be myself

For cleaning blackboards

Passing things and

Dumping trash like a good elf

Studying the picture

Sally made

I see my name across the head

Of a character who looked like me

With stick out ears and dimpled chin

Embarrassed eyes leave the note as

My classmates in unison

Shout “HA! HA! THOMAS!

APRIL FOOL!

We tricked you cause you were late to school!

Better you the Fool’s Day fool than us!

Next time go catch an earlier bus!

Written by R. Renée Bembry

April 1, 2013

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