Joyce Armor

Humorist and children’s poet Joyce Armor earned a BA at Wittenberg University. Her poems take on daily life from a child’s perspective and have been featured in numerous anthologies of humorous verse, including Rolling in the Aisles: A Collection of Laugh-Out-Loud Poems (2011), No More Homework! No More Tests! Kids’ Favorite Funny School Poems (1997), and Kids Pick the Funniest Poems: Poems That Make Kids Laugh (1991). Armor is also the author of The Dictionary According to Mommy: A Humorous Guide to Motherhood (1989), What You Don’t Know about Having Babies … A Pregnancy Q&A Book (1997), and Letters from a Pregnant Coward (1987). She lives in Ohio. Source

Clatter

If I should list my favorite words,

They’d sound a lot like this:

Rumble, crash, snort, jangle, thump,

Roar, fizzle, splat, moo, hiss.

Not to mention gobble, clang,

Tweet, sputter, ticktock, growl;

Crackle, chirp, boom, whistle, wheeze,

Squawk, jingle, quack, thud, howl.

Then of course there’s grunt, toot, cuckoo,

Thunder, bang, pop, mush,

Rattle, splash, rip, ding-dong, and…

My parents’ favorite–Hush!

Published:

2015

Length:

Shorty

Literary Movements:

Children's

Anthology Years:

2023

Themes:

Childhood & Coming of Age

Humor & Satire