Get Your Premium Membership

Best Dr. Seuss Poems

Below are the all-time best Dr. Seuss poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dr. seuss poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Engelbert Effleflump For Dr Seuss Contest
Engelbert Effleflump put on his disguise
Climbed in his orcetector and rose in the skies

For his mum hated flying and must never know
That Engelbert’s job was...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, fantasy, flying, kids, mum,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Hello Dr Seuss Do Come In
HELLO DR. SEUSS – DO COME IN

There’s a BEAR
On my STAIR,
And I wish it 
Wouldn’t STARE!
There’s a WUPBOARD,
In my CUPBOARD
And a DOX 
In my BOX,
I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dragon and Dr Seuss
"Oh, The places You'll Go!"

Dragon was in a slump as the kids all left to go back to school.
So I read to him:“All the Places...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Don'T Cry Because It's Over - Dr Seuss Quote Contest
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened
memories will save the precious times.
Don't weep because we are no longer together
focus on the many times...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, lost love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Reverse Rant
"Rhyming poems have nothing of substance to say
They're childish! Ridiculous! Silly! Passe!

What's that - 'The Raven,' fine prose, you assure?
Pshaw, a talking bird is not...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, humor, irony, poetry, writing,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014
A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)

I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.


"A Rational...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When It Comes To Me
I often sit for long periods of time
hoping the perfect beginning will come to me.
To write a poem that starts with a pristine Capital
leaving readers...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, adventure, celebration, change, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aunt Clementine
It's the summer, and it's time
to take the train to old Saint Ives
and visit my Aunt Clementine
who lives alone by an old salt mine. ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, fun, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Curious George
I remember Christopher Robin
When helping Pooh find honey
Was my biggest problem
I remember the blustery days
We trusted each other in every way

I remember When we helped...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, adventure, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gifted Pig Named Polly
Pigs that swim the Caribbean aren't just silly rumors,
Polly is just such a pig, from the island of Exumas ...

Oh, Polly loves the water so,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, animal, fantasy, flying, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Snaffylaffy Swiger
The SnaffyLaffy Swiger
Looks something like a tiger.
His stripes are big and bright
Just like a rainbow.
They shimmer glittery
Beneath the moon glow
Florescent green, pink, blue and yellow.
SnaffyLaffy...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, fantasy, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
If I Were a Who
If I were a Who,
  From down in Who-ville.
I’d be called Ra-who-l,
  Cooking on my Who-grill.

I’d IM my friends,
  On my Ya-Who.
I’d...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, funny
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poets Titles
In her twilight years, Pixie Dust, a soul so like my own.

Jeanne McGee heart hears the waves of poems that live beyond every gate.

After the...

Read more of this work...
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dr. seuss, friend, fun, muse, write,
Form: List
Premium Member Andy's Candy Store
I am Andy; I love candy. I sell candy too.
Come and see the many candies that I have for you.

You can buy some chocolate in...

Read more of this work...
Categories: dr. seuss, children, candy, chocolate, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things