I Got My Mom a Valentine
From the book A Festival for Frogs
I got my mom a Valentine,
the coolest one I’ve seen.
It wasn’t purple, pink, or red;
my card was brownish-green.
I thought it was a perfect piece
of Valentine’s Day art.
With nothing written on it,
it was just a big green heart.
I gave it to my mother.
I was sure she’d be amused.
Instead, she looked at me and said,
“I’m totally confused.”
I guess it wasn’t obvious.
She didn’t have a clue
my brownish-greenish card was just
to tell her, “Olive hue.”
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Holiday Poems, Poems about Friends and Family, Valentine's Day
Poetic Techniques: Dialogue, Narrative Poems, Pun Poems
From the book A Festival for Frogs
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