Litreature is an effortles way of teaching  language.When I get enough money,illustrating them,I want to publish the following poems.I need your enriching feedbacks on the content and style.

A king born

 

Once up on a time

There was an old king

Who used to worry

About one thing

'Surely one day

I will pass away!'

 

As many me advise

Among my sons

The wise

A heir

Must take over

To govern

My subjects better.

 

Next to God,

To corporeal things

Who is above,

I want to check

The strength of

My sons' filial love.

 

Thus his sons he called

To “How much

do you love me? ” respond.

 

Answered the elder

“I love you like honey

That has no parallels any!”

He won the warm laughter

Of his father.

 

“I love you like a sugar

Could honey be any better?”

Answered the second

Thus a corner

He succeeded to cut

In his father's heart.

 

“I love you like a salt

As there is no fault

As missing this ingredient

In any dish

We want to relish!”

Said the youngest

Proving the wisest.

 

“Come over here

Take over my throne

You are a king born!”

 

Replied the king

Feeling

From his heart

The lifting

Up of something!

 

How to tell a fool

 

A snake bites

A fool twice

While to show

He opts to advance

“It is this one

That stung me once!”

 

Digs his own grave

 

Mamo the fool

Mamo the fool

Absent from a school

With an ax

Tries to detach

A tree's branch

On which he has sat!

 

Wrongly thinking

He is wise

As much as brave

Mamo the fool

Digs his own grave!

There is no one him to save!

Nothing to catch

Along with the branch

Up on falling

“Help Me Please!” crying.

 

 

Let us play

 

Children let us play

Children let us play

As childhood flies away.

 

Once gone for good

Never comes back childhood!

 

Children let us play

Let us play

Our fill today.

 

A baby

A baby

Is lovely

As a lily!

 

It touches

Its nose

With its toes!

 

It thinks

When touched

With toes

A nose grows.

 

It also knows

Grownups

Can’t touch

Their nose

With their toes.

 

A baby

Also wonders

How a nail grows

On the toes!

 

A baby

What a funny

Bunny!

 

A cup of tea

 

Mom,

I need a cup of tea

I need a cup of tea

Could you make

One for me!

If you also have buns

I need two please!

 

Why

 

Mummy tell me why

Rats couldn’t fly,

Tell me also why

Flowers don’t grow

On the sky?

Mummy tell me quick

Why animals

Don’t speak?

Mom I want to know

Could stars grow in a row

On our meadow?

Mummy please respond

When people get buried

Who serves them food?

 

Oh no!

Baby I wish

I know!

 

By the way, mummy

Do you find

My questions silly?

 

Kick the ball

 

Kick the ball

Kick the ball

It will fly or roll

Before

It becomes a goal!

 

Kick and dribble

Dribble and kick

The small

Round ball

Cry or weep

It will not at all!

 

Hip- hop

 

Hip-hop

Hip-hop

For a minute

Don’t stop!

How to gallop

A racing bicycle or horse,

It is this way,

You will learn

Of course.

Sick

 

When you get sick

You have to go quick

To the clinic!

Don’t take a risk!

Gravity

 

If you try

To jump high

Or skyward fly

You could

Drop down

And die!

 

Boys naughty

Are you being

Sporty?

Don’t forget

Gravity!

 

Jog and jog

 

If you want

To be strong

With your

Pet dog

Round, round

And round

The track of

The football field

Jog, jog and jog

Jumping over

Each big log

As a hurdle

Placed all along.

 

But if

You go wrong

You could suffer

A bang!

 

If you should

Suffer a bang,

With a leg

To drag

How could

You jog?

 

Still,

It will be worse

If you get

A bumpy

Or bloody nose!

 

 

 

Mr. Bird, Mr. Bird

 

Mr. Bird, Mr. Bird

Your life is odd

Is it not funny,

How in the tree

You make

A home cozy?

 

I wonder how

In your nest

You quietly

Take a rest!

A Bee

 

A bee

Like a butterfly

Is not free.

Also it may not be

That bright,

But to taste

Its honey sweet

What a delight!

What a delight!

 

Besides

The busy bee

Has a lesson

For you

And me,

‘Whenever

You work hard

You will feel

A pride!’

 

‘What a pride

You also take

When people ask

For the things

You make!’

 

‘Indeed it is

A great reward

To be counted

As someone

Doing good!’

 

 

 

Free

 

Birds in a tree

Birds in a tree

Wherever to fly

They are free.

 

When I sleep

Late at night

I wish

I could do that,

As I forget

I am wrapped up

With a bed sheet,

A blanket

And a coverlet!

 

Why is that

In our dreams

We put on wings?

Up on awakening

Which disappears?

Somebody tell me

The secret please!

Spider

 

Spider, spider

What an ugly

Creature!

But what

A cobweb

It makes,

With a

Thin thread,

To trap flies,

Which affect

Human beings

Carrying germs,

On their legs

And wings!

 

Fix in your mind

Though a spider

Looks bad

It does

Something good

When for food

It depends

On flies.

 

With the string

It spins

Like a gymnast

With its many legs

A spider also

Ascends upwards.

 

 

 

A song

 

Always

Early in the morning

Birds sing and sing.

To hear that song

I always long.

I get up early

And open the window

When there are still

Dews on the meadow.

 

With their

Melodic songs

The lovely

Small birds

Greet me

‘Hello young fellow!’

 

Staring on

The trees

Opening wide

My tiny ears

I reply “Hello”

And forget

Everything below.

 

A day

They start never

Without thanks

To God

And a prayer.

 

What a delight

What a delight

To watch-

Butterflies

Dark and bright,

A sky blue

And white!

Flowers with

Lots of colors,

Worms that crawls

On the leaves

Of the shrubs and trees,

The small ponds

Where big eyed frogs

Tin and slim swim.

 

What a delight

What a delight

To hear

Cats miawing

Dogs barking

Sheep bleating

Cocks crowing

Oxen bellowing

Donkeys braying

A church bell ringing

A muezzin for prayer calling

The wind blowing

The river flowing!

 

Now

A sugar cane

I am chewing

Farmers are plowing

My friends are playing

An ape with a firm grip

Is munching

A purple apple.

How it is terrifying

From afar to hear

Wolfs howling

Lions roaring!

I must be running

I hear a snake hissing!

 

Cocks

 

With their claws

Having hooked nails

Cocks scratch hard

On the dust and sand

But in search of

A grain or a seed

If instead, they find

A shining gold

Buried in a sand

They never mind!

Because cocks

Don’t understand

If sold a gold,

Could hundred

Cocks feed.

 

Two rats and a cat

 

Two hungry rats

One small

And the other tall

That look

A daughter

And mother doll

Got out of their hole,

For days they had

Noting to eat at all.

They got

A loaf of bread

In a basket

Then they began

To quickly nibble

Nibble and bite

With freedom

And delight.

They also ate

A cheese

With ease

Placed in

A cupboard.

 

But after a minute

When they saw

A fearsome crawling cat

They ran as fast as a jet

One to the right

The other to the left

And disappeared

Out of sight.

 

The unhappy and

Angry cat

Confused said

“They were smart!

Before I decide

Which way

I must head

They disappeared!”

And with its tail

Golden and white

Began the floor to pat.

Then slowly

It walked to the gate

To sleep on the doormat

Till the smart two

Come back late at night.

 

A flag

 

When you hang

A flag on the wind

None stopping

For a second

It will

Flutter and flap

Flap and flutter

Flap, flap and flap

If you try

As much to clap

Tired

You will give up!

 

A parrot

 

What a surprise

To hear a bird that talks!

Everything how and what

People says

A parrot studies by heart

Then with the same tone

It utters and utters it

Without any fault.

 

So if you echo

What others are saying

You must know

You are parroting.

 

 

A fight

 

When a goat

And a sheep fight,

The goat

With its hind legs

Stands upright

To strike with

A header

An enemy

Getting closer.

 

While a sheep

A bit

Retreats back

And advance

Forward to attack.

 

A big bang!

 

None of

The two win,

So the same

Action again.

 

A big bang!

 

When both get tired

They catch up with

The herd,

About their fight

That doesn’t

Seem to mind.

 

Mr. ox

 

Mr. ox

How do you do

I raise my hat

For you.

 

For mankind’s sake

For his survival

With a yoke

On your neck,

On the farmland

You work

Starting from

The daybreak

Up to dusk,

Till

Golden red

Color together

The setting sun and

The sky make.

 

And the farmer

Your master

Gets drenched with

Sweat allover.

 

You and

Your master

Are enemies

Of hunger!

 

 

 

 

Travelers

 

At the closing

Of a day

When travelers

Get weary

On their way

Sleep they may

On a heap of hay,

As the lovely moon

Spellbinds them soon!

 

Honey

 

Those

Who have money

Could enjoy honey

But I haven’t any

Let me go home

Perhaps

In my dreams

I may have some.

 

 

Neither hot nor cold

 

The tea is hot

Drink it

I will not!

And if

It is cold

My brother

That does not

Interest me either!

The tea that I need

Is one

Neither hot nor

Ice cold.

 

Scorching sun

 

When the sun

Is scorching

What do you think

People will be seeking?

A water to drink?

Or, a rest to take?

 

There is no denying

It is for a shade

Of a tree

They are longing!

 

A danger sign

 

If you see

A danger sign

On the wall

Get closer

Never at all!

Do you want to

Know why?

Carelessly

You must not

Die!

 

So act as

An elderly boy!

 

Broken chair

 

Somebody very fat

Even stout has sat

On the broken chair

Off care.

 

Now it is damaged

Beyond repair

It is not fair!

It is not fair!

A kiss or a sting

 

Mr. bee

Why do you hover

Over my tea?

 

Do you want

To take some sips

Or to plant a kiss

On my lips?

Oh, no

Go please

I am not willing

To tolerate

Your sting!

 

A bat

 

Early at night

If you see

A flying rat

In a way

That is not right

A zigzag

Be sure it is a bat.

 

Sitting on

A big tree and

Winking with

A scornful eye

How the bat fly,

An owl

Mocks ‘It is foul!

It is foul!

It would be better

If bats crawl!’

 

 

A banana skin

 

A banana skin

On the track,

If you stand on it

You will get yourself

Flat on your back!

 

Of course

A banana is sweet

And it is something

You may get

Eager to eat.

But when you peel it

Never forget

To throw its skin

In to the dustbin.

 

The rain

 

The angry rain

Again and again

Strikes the roof,

The door and

The windowpane.

Then floods

Each ditch.

Many to their bone

It will soak

Who without

An umbrella walk.

Sometimes

It doesn’t spare

All

By the roadside

Who seek a shelter.

Also

House utensils

Kitchenwares

Under

A roof leaking

Will be soaking.

 

When its

Anger subsides

From the trees

Droplets drip drop

Drip and drop

Drop and drop

Then dripping

They will stop.

 

A wizard

 

When denied entry

To a wedding

Ceremony,

Because of his

Clothes shabby

His appearance

With no

Trace of beauty,

And when

The celebrants

Looked him down

As horrible

And ugly

A wizard

In our backyard

Really got very,

Very angry.

 

Offended indeed

The wizard felt

An urge

To make a revenge.

So he went home

In a hurry

Still angry

And came back quick

With a broomstick,

Having a

Power of magic!

 

Pointing the broom

As a handgun

The wizard

Called down

A curse on

The bride

And changed

Her into a lizard

Having a gizzard.

The wizard

Before he

Flew away

Riding the broom,

Also transformed

The wedding party into

An empty room,

And made

The bridegroom

Disappear into a gloom.

 

When his

Anger chilled

The wizard

To the celebrants

Said

“May on your way

Awaits you a doom!”

 

Afraid

With his curse

Once again,

The wizard

May call a blizzard

The bridesmaid

Together with

The best men

Said ‘Amen!’

 

We have to

Pray hard

To seek

The protection

Of almighty God

From a witch or

An evildoer wizard.

 

Of course a wizard

With a curled tail

Exists in the tell

Tale land.

 

A walloping

 

I beg

Daddy ‘Please!’

On my knees

When he decides

To give me a lash

Making a dash

To the whip,

When I miss

Class asleep

Or studying

I go to sleep!

Still doing

My homework,

At times slips

My mind.

But if

For my

Wrongdoing,

I suffer a walloping

I get out to our garden

And weep, weep

And weep

Till other children

Via the tiny holes

On our fence peep

And say

“How could

We offer help

To cheer up

The poor chap! ”

 

 

To the hog

 

When mummy

Sends me

To a nearby hog

I unchain our dog

And allow it

To come along.

 

In the hog

When I sing a song,

On its

Hind legs standing

The dog,

In a manner

Awe inspiring,

Begins tiptoeing.

Buyers and sellers

Pay admiration

To the dog

Applauding

“What a dog

What a dog

It is cleaver

And strong!”

 

Foe

 

To kill your foe

Say a sleeping tiger,

With an arrow

A net and a bow,

When you walk

You have to go

Carefully and

Watchfully

With each toe.

 

But what a woe

What a woe

If beforehand

You tumble, rumble

Or fumble.

 

Leisure time

 

In my time leisure

I take a pleasure

When I read poems

Or play table tennis.

 

Tell me please

What you do in

Your recess?

 

A beauty icon

 

If a girl

Has a straight nose,

Big eyes

That role like

A pair of balls,

Black shiny hairs

And if she is tall

With lips small

Moreover if she

Is slender

She will be

A beauty icon

Forever.

Riding a sheep

 

Once I tried to ride

A fury sheep

Giving it a rap

With a whip,

Foolishly thinking

Like a Lorry

Heavy load

That easily carry

It will go

In a hurry.

 

For a while

I was able to gallop

With no worry

But when suddenly

The sheep shrank

Its body

With furry

I sat on the ground

With a flop!

The sheep got

Out of sight

I hope!

 

Numbers

One two

My homework

I have to do.

 

Three four

For a walk

We go out all,

Every boy could

Carry his ball

Each girl

Could bring her doll.

 

Five Six

To cut a tree

You need an axe,

If yours is not good

Lend you mine

I could.

 

Seven eight

She and her friends

Take a delight

When they pay friends

A visit

Going deep into

The nearby forest.

But to reach there

Before the sun

Is about to set

They must move fast.

But when they move fast

They have to check

Their heartbeat!

 

Nine ten

Your exercise books

You have to read

Again and again,

If you have lost yours

Take mine please.

 

Eleven twelve

A smile to receive

One we must give.

When people see

A smile on our face

Soon shiny

Becomes theirs.

 

Thirteen fourteen

Sixteen seventeen

Eighteen nineteen

Where have you been?

Have you been

Laying on

The grass green

In that case

Have you seen

Clouds marching

Across the sky

And Birds flying by.

 

Twenty thirty

Forty sixty

Seventy eighty

This box is heavy

To lend me a hand

Are you ready?

 

Ninety hundred

She and her mother

He and his father

Are asking for bread.

 

To whom does

This poem belong?

It is mine

No it is his

No it is hers

No it is theirs

I think it is ours

No no by no means

It is yours!

Provincial and city girls

 

Some provincial girls

Have tattoos

In a form of a cross

On their foreheads, temples

Cheeks and chins.

They also wear

Traditional costumes.

 

Some city girls

Wear gold laces

On their necks and legs,

And earrings on their earlobes

They also put on

Fashionable miniskirts.

 

A family tree

 

‘Man do you have a nephew?’

I have a few

‘Woman, do you have a niece?’

That would be nice!

‘Boy is your aunt fat?’

Yes, she is stout!

‘Boy is your uncle tall?’

Yes, like a telephone poll!

‘Girl do you have a grandmother?’

No, she had gone to heaven!

She died just before I was born.

But why should I bother

I have a grandfather

And a great grandmother

I also have a baby brother.

 

Days of the week

 

Monday Tuesday

In the library

I stay.

Wednesday Thursday

To the laboratory

Painted gray.

 

Friday Saturday

An exam take I may.

On Sunday

Going to church

A prayer I say

Then I play and play

Or a visit I pay

To relatives

That live on the bay.

On my way

I may come across

Pack animals

That bray

Enjoying a pile of hay.

Or a chameleon that

Changes its color

From red to green

Sat on a leaf of bean,

From green to yellow

As a funny fellow.

Yellow to white

As if dipped

In a milk bucket,

White to purple

To disguise itself

As an apple.

From purple to gray

As a sand on the bay

Or try to look

A brown flower

What a trick

What a trick

This one is better

I think!

 

The months

 

On January and February

We visit the brewery,

In March and April

We sit for a drill,

In May and June

A time for boon,

In July and August

A wrestling time

To tell the strongest,

September October

We put on a necklace

Of amber,

November December

A time for slumber.

 

Maternal love

A bitch feels happy,

When it plays

With its puppy.

 

Has the cat forgotten

Its kitten?

It ought return

And play with it again.

 

Have you seen

A hen

Protecting its cheeks

Under its wings

Against the eagles

Falling from the sky quick

Creating a panic

That always aim

To pick a chick.

 

You might have

Witnessed of course

When a horse

Begets a colt,

The colt for help

It doesn’t wait.

It immediately

Stands erect

On its four feet.

Then the horse

Lick and lick the colt.

 

However the mule is barn

A colt it has none.

Ginger

Here it is cold!

You better get inside

Otherwise

You will catch cold!

But if you are afraid

You are infected,

To be on the safe side

Ask your mother

To make you a tea

With a ginger.

For a recovery faster

Take a tea of ginger

 

Light

Is that sack heavy or light?

I can’t tell

Please put on the light.

 

Goat/Got

 

Have you ever got

A goat

That has got

A goatee.

If so, really

You must be happy!

 

Ship/Sheep

 

Have you ever seen

A sheep on a ship?

Tradesmen

Get income

From shipping

Sheep to Europe

 

Reach/Rich

 

Try to reach

The treasure house

By the beach

If you want to be rich.

 

Week/Wick

This week

You seem wick!

 

Leave/Live

When you leave

The place where

You used to live,

A message you have

To leave,

Where now

You plan to live!

 

Hall/Hole

In one corner of the hall

There is a big rat hole!

I the hole

Who knows

The rats

May have their own hall?

 

Hat/Hut

When you get in to a hut

Put off your hat

Putting on a hat

In a hut

Is not

A good habit!

 

 

Milestones

Now a bachelor

You are single

When you get married

Together with your wife

You will make a couple.

For years ten

If the two of you close remain,

And everywhere

Together if you are seen

As a success story

Your marriage will be taken.

 

But you need a decade more

To make a score.

 

Luckily if you stay for five scores

That will make a century of course!

 

 

 

What a pleasure

What a pleasure!

What a delight!

Naked, with a half pant

Under the sun

Warm, round and bright

In a sea

Blue, wide and vast,

Carried by a tide

That foams and move fast

To dive, resurface, swim

And float

To float, dive and safe come out!

Then all over wet

To Run

And Run

On the shore jubilant!

What a blessing!

What a fortune!

To go out swimming

Again

And again!

What a delight!

What a pleasure!

To live by the seashore!

The famous liar

Dead here lies

A famous liar

Rather

A born fiber

Who used to lie

Awake when he stands

Drowsy when he sleeps.

He lied about

“The silver cock

That laid

An egg of Gold!”

To tell he loved

About

“The comfort he felt

And how sound he slept

On a rose bed

He laid down

On a raging ocean!”

 

He lied, he lied and he lied

Till an outraged lad

On him laid a hand

Up on facing God

If asked why

He used to lie

Doubt Haven’t I

To make another lie

He will try.

Lack/Luck

When you get

Off the track,

Or something dear

If you happen to lack,

Don’t consider

You ran out of luck1!

Instead fight to get back

On the right track!

 

Watch/Match/Much

To watch

The football match

Ask how much

To pay per head

We are expected.

Also watch

Your watch

Least we may miss

The opening of the match.

I hope our foes

To our team

Are no match.

By the way if we win

Do you have

A match

To light up

A touch.