My Puppy Plays Piano
A Funny Pet Poem for Kids
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
My puppy plays piano.
It’s the strangest thing to see.
It seems, while I was practicing,
he learned by watching me.
He started out on chopsticks,
then he learned to play some Bach.
It wasn’t long before he knew
the blues and classic rock.
He also taught my kitten how
so they could play duets,
and then they taught guitar and drums
to all my other pets.
They formed a band and practiced hard
and traveled all around,
and instantly got famous
for their catchy “Pet Rock” sound.
They made a smash hit record
and it wasn’t very long
before my pets were millionaires
because they wrote this song.
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 4
Topics: Animal Poems, Music Poems
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Anthropomorphism & Personification, Hyperbole, Narrative Poems, Superlatives
From the book My Cat Knows Karate
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