‘Three Kittens Went to Kitten-Garten’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

Three Kittens Went to Kitten-Garten

Three kittens in kitten-garten.
Whose teacher was a dog.
They had to write their answers
In their daily log.

The dog would ask the kittens,
“Are you ready now?”
Each kitten had to answer,
“Meow, meow, meow.”

They boned up on their math,
Then did their ABCs.
At recess they could climb
Up in the Dogwood trees.

Reading was quite easy,
Since it was doggerel.
They liked the hunting stories;
The end was never dull.

As afternoon wore on,
The kits were catatonics.
They could not concentrate
On reading using phonics.

The kittens studied hard
And they were doggone good.
They soon had puppy friends
In their new neighborhood.

LTC Roy E. Peterson, US Army Military Intelligence and Russian Foreign Area Officer (Retired) has published more than 6,750 poems in 95 of his 118 books. He has been an Army Attaché in Moscow, Commander of INF Portal Monitoring in Votkinsk, first US Foreign Commercial Officer in Vladivostok, Russia and Regional Manager in the Russian Far East for IBM. He holds a BA, Hardin-Simmons University (Political Science); MA, University of Arizona (Political Science); MA, University of Southern California (Int. Relations) and MBA University of Phoenix. He taught at the University of Arizona, Western New Mexico University, University of Maryland, Travel University and the University of Phoenix.