There are many poems that I want Lash to learn by many different poets. Lash is the greatest baby in the whole world, and I hope that he will appreciate poetry like Dave and I do as he grows older. This poem by Lewis Carroll is a great exploration of language for everyone.
Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought--
So rested he by the Tumtum tree
And stood a while in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with it's head
He went galumphing back.
"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh, Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
More Poetry
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
ee cummings
Langston Hughes
Lucian Blaga
Takomaq Poetry
Cynewulf
Hawaiian Poetry
Sun Pu-erh
Hu Shih
Matsuo Basho
Archibald MacLeish
Jim Hall
Lash's Gallery
Ranier Maria Rilke Poems
Wallace Stevens Poems
