"My Puppy"
by Aileen Fisher
from A Jar of Tiny Stars Poems by NCTE Award-Winning Poets
I have a playful
prankish pup:
When I stood down
he prances up
And snuffs my neck
and slicks my ear
As if I'd been
away a year.
I say, "Be good,
you prankish pup."
But he just smiles
and eats me up!
I absolutely love this poem because it reminds me so much of my dog back home. His name is Homer. He's a very playful fun dog that gets very excited every time he sees me! I think children can relate to this poem because children usually love animals and it also has a nice flow to it. This poem has both rhythm and rhyme. When you read this poem out loud it flows well uses rhyming words. For example, "pup" and "up" and "ear" and "year." This poem also uses imagery. You can visually picture this as you read this poem aloud. For instance, "When I stoop down he prances up." I think children relate well to poems that uses imagery because it allows them to picture it in their heads, therefore allows them to understand the poem better. The form used in this poem is real simple. There are two lines in each of the six stanzas.