POEM
Things
Trains are for going,
Boats are for rowing,
Seeds are for sowing,
Noses for blowing,
And sleeping’s for bed.
Dogs are for pawing,
Logs are for sawing,
Crows are for cawing,
Rivers for thawing,
And sleeping’s for bed.
Flags are for flying,
Stores are for buying,
Glasses for spying,
Babies for crying,
And sleeping’s for bed.
Cows are for mooing,
Chickens for shooing,
Blue is for bluing,
Things are for doing,
And sleeping’s for bed.
Games are for playing,
Hay is for haying,
Horses for neighing,
Saying’s for saying,
And sleeping’s for bed.
Money’s for spending,
Patients for tending,
Branches for bending,
Poems for ending,
And sleeping’s for bed.
“Things,” from Laughing Time, by William Jay Smith. Copyright © 1953 William Jay Smith.
Source: Laughing Time (Little, Brown and Company, 1955)
