Tillie Poems - Poems about Tillie

Toadstool Tillie lives in a toadstool house With a cat, a rat, a snake and a mouse. A bunny comes by with his friend dragon. “Can we please borrow your new red wagon?” Toadstool Tillie has been burned before. By people who borrow and never come back in the door. Stealing her stuff, so she says “Only if we come with...

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When your eyes are weak, Bless those who are very meek! ...

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I almost dare not to tell you a story this silly, This crazy, this weird, this hilarious absolute willy. But I have to do it, for my darling friend Big Tillie. She is gone now, in heaven, fixing her chili. Big Tillie was a simple woman, married to Hilly. It gets worse. His full name was Hilly Billy McGilly. So,...

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Tillie Lydston 1843 – 1905 I was forty six When I first saw the hills. Those most magical eastern hills of my home. I loved Whittier as my mother And it saddens me I can’t be there again. I left behind family and friends in faraway Illinois For those wondrously beautiful eastern hills, Where my new friends set up homes and feasted With many songs...

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I use to have a grandma named Tillie Who use to be quite the philly She made popcorn And put them in bread bags For us all to have and brag She use to wear aprons And sometimes taped them She was a little lady But always had plenty to say She sat in a rocking chair And watch us all with care She passed away...

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