Poem help please

[Lynn]

I have to read a poem for speach class. Can anyone post some for me. Serious or funny poems doesn't matter. Thanks

[Mellifluous]

My favorite is The Road Less Traveled by Robert Frost. It is pretty popular so you might want something more obscure. I thought I would toss it out here anyway.

The Road Not Taken


Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[CarolU]

This is an original...

Once upon a nice spring day, it was just about the middle of May.
I was walking down a country road, when I happened to step on a baby toad.
He shrieked with pain, hopping up and down, and finally he just plain fell to the ground.
He lay there hurt, eyes closed in pain, and I knew if he died, I'd be to blame.
So just at once I took him to the vet, in hopes that he could cure my pet.
He said, "He just has a bump on his head." To give him an asprin and send him to bed.
Well the very next day he was just as fine as could be. So I decided right then I'd set him free.
I set him next to the side of the road, and a truck came along and ran over my toad!
I sure did wish that that truck has missed, but I guess that poor toad was just born to be squished.