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Best Suess Poems

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Premium Member Dr Suess and His Shoe Store
"I  LIKE NONSENSE, IT WAKES UP THE BRAIN CELLS!"
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Categories: suess, children, silly,
Form: Rhyme



Go Dog Go a Dr Suess Parody
The dog was driving fast when the light turned green
and drove as if the red was a light between.
He was in a terrible hurry for...

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Categories: suess, adventure, light, tree,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dr Suess' Shoe Store
LISTEN, LISTEN! I have BIG NEWS
Dr Suess has a store just full of SHOES..
A GAZILLION shoes I'm sure there must be
Line them all up, bet...

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Categories: suess, children, funny, halloween, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dr Suess, Ten Pounds On the Bottom
Inspired by- Ten Apples Up On top



Ten pounds, ten pounds, on my bottom!
Good grief, good grief!, How fast I got'em!
I must, I must! Lose this...

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Categories: suess, angst, food, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Visiting Dr Suess Collaboration - Not For Contest
A furry little caterpillar
Crawled onto my knee
He turned into a butterfly
And landed in a tree

Beside him was a humming bird
Sucking pollen from a rose
When down...

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Categories: suess, adventure, children, fun, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Have You Seen My Carflufflemoose
I wish to find my Carflufflemoose
He's smaller than a duck
With a long neck like a goose
Please tell me yes 
Oh tell me please
Have you seen...

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Categories: suess, kids, fun, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M Youer Than You
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You"

Dr. Suess

I’m Youer Than You

I studied real...

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Categories: suess, change, dark,
Form: Light Verse
Maisey's Love
I didn't know the sunlight 'till she brought it to the house,
or how much better pancakes are when shaped like Mickey Mouse.
I've learned that giving...

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© Wayne Sapp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suess, childhood, loveme, , literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reading 101's Wild Ride
So boring were 1950's school reading primers --
   See Dick. See Dick run.  Run, Dick. Run, run, run.
   See Jane....

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Categories: suess, change, fun, funny, history,
Form: Rhyme
Poem For Children
There is so many stories telling a child how to grow up, the difference between right and wrong. to follow the rules, to see in...

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Categories: suess, child, fantasy, children, kids,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hop On Pop
Have you heard of this daddy-o named Jacques
If you have, then what I tell you won't shock
He's a nice enough sort
Invites ladies for sport
Like Dr....

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Categories: suess, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Too Late For the 7-7-4 Thing, But Thought I'D Throw It Out There Anyway
Rhyming is not hard for me.
Neither is light poetry. 
Lucky that way.
OK, the stanza count's three.
Rhyme scheme is A A then B.
Lots more to say.
Where...

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Categories: suess, inspirational, on writing and
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Buttercupshalimarcat
ButtercupShalimar was a cat, that was white
She was fluffy and furry and real girl girly.
One day, in a baskety in the bedrommy,
She had six kittiebabies...

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Categories: suess, children, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Day At the Zoo
I took a trip to the local zoo
 And met a monkey named Abu
I gave him a big yellow banana 
and he wore a cool...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: suess, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Galactic Mess
I see that I've detected
some words that were neglected
By noted “lexicologist” to Suess 
I'm sure some how in time
they'll create more words that rhyme
But for...

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Categories: suess, anxiety, humor, humorous, word
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs