I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat.I don't don't know why know why,I simply know that I I Iam am inclined to say to saya lot a lot this way this way-I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat.I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat. My mom my mom gets mad gets mad, it irritates my dad my dad, it drives them up a tree a tree, that's what they tell they tell me me-I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat.I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat. It gets me in a jam a jam, but that's the way I am I am, in fact I think it's neat it's neatto to to to repeat repeat-I often repeat repeat myself,I often repeat repeat.
funny poetry humor poem
The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway..
funny poetry humor children
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
life
I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
help music fun
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
poetry fun
fun
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
poetry language
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
opportunity imagination language
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
poetry
Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
reading poetry trouble
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
reading computers
Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
imagination
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