Konstantin Ananin Poems

Home’s a place where
Your parents take care
Of you, and any time
You want, you easily find
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You left me! The only friend
That could always help me to stand
Any sorrow or pain.
How could you break the chain
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Brother Rabbit and Brother Terrapin wanted to run round a tree.
They went to Brother Bear and asked him to be the referee.
He said to Brother Terrapin, “You win if you’re the first to take the stone! ”
Brother Rabbit ran and won as Brother Terrapin could only go,
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- Art! Why are getting
This enormous pig in?
Your Ellen is known as
A woman who hates a mess.
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- You need some more stamps.
___________________________- Why?
I’ve already put on five.
- You see, your letter is too
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Starfish? Are they the creatures
That are covered with small stars?
Are their typical features
Rather unusual? Are
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- Hey, you! Bird! Sing!
- Impossible, I mean
You should first pay.
- Aha! OK!
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Let me touch you –
I’ll become a gentle wind.

Let me kiss you –
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I feel Nan’s and Mummy’s hands
Far away, in distant lands.
Eagles are soaring in the sky.
Ermines always try to hide.
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Once Little Teddy was near a tree.
He heard the noise that he knew. “A bee?
No! Many bees! Much honey!
With it the day’s always sunny! ”
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