#Funny poems about growing up movie#

Find funny poems that make your kids giggle and laugh or thoughtful ones that make them think about life.Ĭhildren love to read poetry, they are amused by what the poems invoke in their imagination. Photo by pedrosimoes7, Creative Commons, via Flickr.Poems for Kids introduces poetry to children. Even a book like I Could Take You to the Taxidermist: And Other Poems by Cat Owners still wouldn’t be sufficient to counter cats. At least there will be some balance.Įxcept with cats, no such thing as balance exists. At the end of the month, Marciuliano is publishing I Could Chew on This – poems by dogs. This is a tell-it-like-it-truly-is collection of poems about cats and by cats. Which means they are mostly about sleeping. The poems are divided into four sections: family, work, play, and existence. Published in 2012, it’s a laugh-out-loud collection. There’s no question that the poems of I Could Pee on This were written by cats. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Books of Practical Cats, which inspired the musical Cats. The only poetry book about cats I’ve previously been aware of was T.S. The cat was so grateful that he left my wife a present on the doorstep – a headless bunny. To a homeless cat, that’s a sign of immediate adoption. She allowed the cat to spend the night in our garage. A late cold snap promised to drive temperatures below zero, and my wife took pity. The neighborhood children, including our youngest son, took pity and fed the cat milk and potato chips. She was one sturdy silver polishing cloth.Ī few years after her death, a black cat (a male) wandered into the neighborhood. Our cat lived until she was almost 18 years old.

She also had the personality of a silver polishing cloth.Įvery poem in I Could Pee on This is true. After the kitten became an adult, a friend charitably described her as looking like a silver polishing cloth. My wife and I were married four months and living in Texas when our first cat came on the scene, a kitten huddled under a bush near the mailboxes of our apartment complex. My family always seemed to have one, usually mixed breeds. The strip has no cats those are saved for this book. Marciuliano writes the strip Craig Macintosh draws it. You may have heard of him when he’s not recording poems by cats, he’s co-authoring the comic strip Sally Forth. That’s the title poem of I Could Pee on This: And Other Poems by Cats by Francesco Marciuliano. It’s rather startling: a recurring line in poetry that reads “I could pee on that.”Ĭharles Bukowski, perhaps? Sandra Bernhard waxing softly poetic? This is a reprint from an article by Glynn Young, originally published at Tweetspeak Poetry. Sappy relationship movies, supposedly strengthening relationships, can also make grist for real love humor poems.Ĭlueless or snarfed too much Mystic Pizza.įiled Under: Funny, Funny Love Poems, Funny poems, Love, Tongue-in-Cheek, Uncategorized Funny Cat Books: I Could Pee on This

Says the article, “A fascinating new study shows that sappy relationship movies made in Hollywood can actually help strengthen relationships in the real world.”

#Funny poems about growing up movie#

So it was for the fated Movie Date Night Can Double as Therapy, which Maureen Doallas read in the New York Times. Sometimes a serious article is just too good to pass up for humorous opportunity.