English Poetry of Grade Two in Primary School: My Old Uncle Wheeler
My old uncle Wheeler.
Musical instrument dealer
Sell cello, piano and guitar.
He also sells mandolins,
Banjo and violin,
Guzheng, harp and sitar.
He sells all these things.
Play music with strings
At an unparalleled low price.
He got a big discount.
His price is so cheap.
Because he sells them unconditionally!
I can't eat anything.
I don't care how good you are to me.
There is one thing I won't eat.
I don't care how much you add.
Try to make it sweet.
Not a big jar of honey.
Not a dozen jellies.
Not 16 pack of soda.
Will eat one in my stomach.
Use a can of maple syrup
Or a truckload of fudge.
Bring a hundred cans of icing.
But you won't make me change my mind.
Try a thousand pounds of chocolate.
Or a million tons of sugar.
I don't care how much sugar you put in it,
I won't eat booger.
Lucky House: English Poetry of Grade Two in Primary School
Luck Lou is luckier.
More than anyone in the world.
Lou has ninety rabbit feet,
His lawn is made of four-leaf clover.
Lou has many lucky bracelets.
All decorated with lucky charm;
Some he wears on his ankles,
Others tinkled on his arm.
Lou will always wear his lucky hat.
Even when he's in the shower.
Black cats always walk behind him.
So they won't touch him.
Never walk under a ladder.
Never wore a needle of black.
Never broke a mirror.
Never step on cracks.
Luck Lou is luckier.
It is said that more than anyone.
Until one day the grand piano
Fell down and landed on his head.
English Poetry in Grade Two: Sailing to Singapore
I want to go to Singapore by boat.
Jakarta or Yangon,
But our boat hardly moved.
On this windless afternoon.
I will sail my boat to Stockholm,
Set a route to southern Spain,
I will be guided by the lighthouse
On the rocky coast of Maine.
I'll cross Krakato
Draw a route to Kathmandu.
I will sail to Venice,
I'm cruising on Corfu Island.
I'll glide across the Galapagos Islands,
Floating across the Bahamas,
I navigate by starlight.
In my sailor pajamas.
I will skim the seven Aral Seas.
Make waves like the sea.
I will travel around the world.
Explore coastal caves.
I will start my journey soon.
I'm going to travel soon,
In this boat parked in our driveway.
On this windless afternoon.
No camels in the classroom.
Don't bring camels into the classroom.
Don't bring scorpions to school.
Don't bring rhinos, rats or reindeer.
Don't bring rats or moose or mules.
Pull your penguin off the playground.
Put your python on the tree.
Put your platypus anywhere.
You think platypus should.
Lose your leopard and lemur.
Put down your camel and leech.
Take your tiger, toad and toucan.
Except where they teach.
Send your wombat and weasel
Take your wasp and wolverine.
Hide your hedgehog and hyena.
Are you sure they won't be found?
Please throw away your gorilla.
Please kick your kangaroo out.
No, the teacher didn't mean it.
When she called this class "the zoo".