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Gingerbread Poems
A Gingered January
Joyce Carol Thomas
Ouside, ice covers the roof,
Snow quilts the ground
Inside the kitchen, Grandma says,
"This oven's right warm."
And we mix us up a gingerbread man.
A bowl of molasses, a dipper of milk
A dash of butter, and flour like silk
Ginger and the hen's fattest egg
Vanilla extract, sprinkled nutmeg
At last I taste a bite or two
"He looks just like you,"
Grandma says, nodding her head
And I eat up all the gingered bread.
Stir a bowl of gingerbread,
Smooth and spicy brown.
Roll it with a rolling pin,
Up and up and down.
With a cookie cutter,
Make some little men.
Put them in the oven
Till half past ten!
Sugar and spice and everything nice -
That's what gingerbread is made of.
We're yummy to eat - a "lip-smacking" treat.
And that's just what we are afraid of!
So we'll lay on the plate and we'll patiently wait,
For the first hungry, unwary guest.
Then we'll jump up and run,
This part is such fun,
It's what we love doing the best!
To the door we will race - wish we could see each face.
The adults won't believe their own eyes.
But the girls and the boys will just think that we're toys,
And we're only a party "surprise"!
There's a lesson in this, if you're made out of dough.
You're not just around for your looks, don't you know?
Sooner or later you're bound to get hurt.
You were made to be eaten! (You're someone's dessert!)
Gingerbread Children
Gingerbread children
Stand in a row.
Very good children
Always you know.
They never will jump
Or kick or leap,
Or start to cry when
It's time to sleep.
They never run off
Or look around.
And no one has heard
Them make a sound.
Gingerbread children
Are fine to meet,
But, much better still,
They're good to eat!
Gingerbread Parade
Roll out the dough.
Cut out the shapes.
Gingerbread people
Are fun to make.
Add raisin eyes
And chocolate chip smiles
Slide them into the oven
To bake for a while.
When the timer says,"Ding!"
And the cookies are done,
They'll march from the oven,
One by one.
Gingerbread Rap
Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me,
I'm the Gingerbread man.
You can run in the morning,
You can run in the night,
But you can't catch me,
Uh huh, that's right,
You can't catch me,
Uh huh, that's right!
Gingerbread man, where ya goin' so fast?
Better come back 'fore you run out of gas.
Gingerbread man, where ya goin'?
Gingerbread man, where ya goin'?
It's cold out there
With the snow on the ground,
And where you're goin'
You may never be found.
Gingerbread man, where ya goin'?
Gingerbread man, where ya goin'? I said
Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me,
I'm the Gingerbread man.
You can run in the morning,
You can run in the night,
But you can't catch me,
Uh huh, that's right.
You can't catch me,
Uh huh - THAT'S RIGHT!
Six little Gingerbreads
Naked as can be
Let's decorate them
I'll take three.
Mine will be Gingergirls
You take the others -
I'll make mine pretty
And you can fix their brothers.
Three little Gingermaids
All sugared and spiced
Looking even nicer
With their faces sweetly iced.
Smarty buttons down their frocks
Of nut-brown gingerbread.
Icing cuffs around their wrists
Their little arms outspread.
You'll make the Gingerboys
Look really very smart
In their Ginger uniforms
They can't be told apart.
Let's march them all in
To the table for tea.
There'll be lots of lovely gingerbread
For my friends and me.
A baker took some gingerbread dough
And shaped a man from head to toe.
When it was baked, the cookie fled.
Here is what the cookie said:
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
I'm the gingerbread man!
The cookie man ran past a cow
Who said, "I want to eat you now!"
The cookie man just laughed and fled.
Here is what the cookie said:
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
I'm the gingerbread man!
A farmer saw the man go by.
He chased him low, he chased him high
The cookie man just shook his head.
Here is what the cookie said:
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!
Run! Run! As fast as you can!
I'm the gingerbread man!
He finally reached the river wide,
A fox asked, "Would you like a ride?"
The cookie sat on the fox's head,
Here is what the sly fox said:
"You can't run! That's my plan!
I'm going to eat you, gingerbread man!
You can't run" That's my plan!"
And he ate the gingerbread man.
The Gingerbread Man
Rowena Bennett
The gingerbread man gave a gingery shout:
"Quick! Open the oven and let me out!"
He stood up straight in his baking pan.
He jumped to the floor and away he ran.
"Catch me," he called, "if you can, can, can."
The gingerbread man met a rooster and pig
And a dog that was brown and twice as big
As himself. But he called to them all as he ran,
"You can't catch a runaway gingerbread man."
The gingerbread man met a reaper and a sower.
The gingerbread man met a thresher and mower;
But no mattter how fast they scampered and ran
They couldn't catch up with the gingerbread man.
Then he came to a fox and turned to face him.
He dared Old Reynard to follow and chase him;
But when he stepped under the fox's nose
Something happened. What do you s'pose?
The fox gave a snap. The fox gave a yawn,
And gingerbread man was gone, gone, GONE.