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JOSIE'S POEMS

People Poems

By Josie Whitehead

Helping Granny .jpg

HELPING GRANNY

Who hasn't heard:
'Granny, can I scrape the
bowl' after the nice sponge cake has been made?

Note:  There are 'people poems' in every index as well as just listed here.  You'll find them.

P E O P L E   P O E M S
Adventure of Samuel Spencer
       Smile (The)
Always in Trouble 
All Those Silly People 
At Ten Past Eight
Baby, You're Beautiful
Best Punishment for Boys (The)
Better Than the Rest
Betty's Butty 
Big Bad Maggie
Brownies
Cameras Never Lie
Change Starts with Me
Chatterbox Lucy
Child of the Summer Sun 
Clocking Up Another Year
Dentists
Do You Want to be a Pirate, Boy?
Dragon Woman
Embracing the World
Family of Man (The)
Family Resemblances
Fidgety Fred
Friendly Lesson (The)
Garden of Eden (The)
Giggling Gertie
God, Save Me From Them All!
Granddad Goes to Nursery School
Granddad's Nightmare
Granddad's Toupee
Grandparents Are . . . 
Granny's Parrot
Gran's True Vocation
Green Folk of Babonga (The)
Growing Up
Helping Granny
Henry Trump is Such a Grump
Hidden Interior (A)
I Forget
I Love Him So 
I'll Never Be a Laureate
I'm Doing Really Fine 
Identity Acceptance 
In a Land Far Away 
In Between 




   


 
Is It Part of Old Age?
It's a Wizzy, Dizzy, Bizzy Life
It's Poor Mr Nobody Again
It's Parents' Party Day
Johnny's Runny Nose
Let's Celebrate Diversity 
Let's Make a Noise About Bullying
Let Us Out - We're Children 
Lie-a-Bed Johnny
Man Within the Boy (The)
Man's Inhumanity to Man
Mattinee and Mints
Miss Monster
Mother Him but . . . 

Mother Mine

    (Petrarchan Sonnet)

Mr Boring 

Mr Monster Maths

Mr Pedantic

Mr Sanctimonious

Mr Seven 53

Mrs Meddle's Muddle 

Mrs What's-a-Name

My Dream 

My Granddad

Mystery Gift (The)

Name Calling

Night Owls and Morning Larks

Nose Pickers - Beware

Old King Kan 

Old Vigilante (An)

On Doing Your Best 

Oooh - You Little Scamp!

Optimist and Pessimist (The)

Parenting Class (The)

Parent Power

Passport Photo (The)

Percival Preedy's Awfully Greedy

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater

Pink Shoes for Miss Bell

Pirate Poet (The)

Pompous Percy

Problem of Getting Older (The)

Retail Therapy

Season of Fruitfulness

Shall I Compare Thee to a
      Winter's Night?
Sharing Our Todays
Sharing Your Tomorrows
She
Show Respect
Silly Milly
Slavery
Sleepy Sue-Ellen
Someone Smiled at Me
Sonnet for Sons and Daughters
Special Gift of Genes (The)
Special Ones (The)
Spring Baby
Story of Mustav That (The)
Swat the Lot 
Sweet Dancer
Sydney Sleep
Table Manners for the Young
Thank God for Grandparents
Thank You Walter de la Mare
That Special Bond
They Call Me Mr Handsome
This Mother and That Mother
This Type, That Type
Time to Go
Too Young 
Through the Eyes of a Child
Turning Over a New Leaf
Upon Man's Warring Tide
Wally the Werk
Walk Through My Lifetime
Watching the Money Tree Grow
When God Created Adam
    and . . God Created Woman Next
Where's Your Smile?
Who'll Help Me?
Who's an Autumn Baby Then?
Why Are Parents Difficult?
Winter-Born Baby
Work
World's Worst Snob (The)
You Adults of Tomorrow
You're Somebody Special
Your Family Tree


 

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