Double Bubble Gum Trouble

July 2, 2024

It’s SUMMER!

Time for running across the lawn under the sprinkler. Riding a bike to the neighborhood park and meeting up with friends. Swinging ever so high, almost up to the sky, and Bubble Gum time!

Here’s a bubble gum poem for chewing ….

child blowing bubble gum

Double Bubble Gum Trouble           by nancy bo flood  

I chewed
And chewed
Then
Blew and blew.
My bubble grew..
And Grew … and  … GREW

until

POP!

Oh, No.
It’s on my nose
It’s in my hair
Double Bubble everywhere.

Piece by piece
I peel off pink.

Ooops

DROPPED

D

D  it.

Ugh.

All gone?

Wrong.

Now

My shoe,

Stuck!

Yuck.

Poem copyright © Nancy Bo Flood

This poem will be included in 40 Poems for 40 Weeks: Integrating Meaningful Poetry and Word Ladders into Grades 3-5 Literacy, to be published in January 2025. Editors, David L. Harrison and Timothy Rasinski, PhD, Kent State University. Poems contributed by Charles Waters, Joseph Bruchac, Nancy Bo Flood, Lesléa Newman, Nikki Grimes, Laura Purdie Salas, Joyce Sidman, Eric Ode, and many more.

Learn more about 40 Poems for 40 Weeks.

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Nancy Bo Flood

As a fish-brain surgeon or a rodeo poem wrangler, I have loved stories. I strongly believe that words – in poetry or prose – help heal our hearts and give us new eyes to see the world. I was first a research psychologist studying brain development at the University of Minnesota and London University before following my passion – writing for children. Learn more...