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4th Grade Poems | Examples of 4th Grade Poetry

4th Grade Poems - Examples of all types of 4th grade poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for 4th grade.
O What A Day
For so very long They played an insipid yet beguiling song A sweet lullaby that wasn't so sweet Deleterious lyrics and rhythms rocked you into a slumbering sleep Closed eye in darkness, away from all light Asleep now, inert and...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, america, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Doubting thomas doth hanker to live in or share
Doubting thomas doth hanker to live in (or share)... a house without gossips nor gonifs with the missus Maybe a pair of stray eyes will alight on my post might subsequently manifest destiny as a positive force to help me secure a...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Idyllic Island
After the party on the boat, I fell into a deep slumber; I knew not what had happened. I woke up on a tropical island, my hands and legs tied with ropes. Carrying out CPR on me, the people there saved...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, boat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bear with a Banjo Tree Hugger
Bear with a banjo tree hugger Beneath the Banyan tree Barely beeps his bitterbugger Beyond barley’s bruised knee....Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Bubbly Verbose Bee
Bubbly verbose bee had so much to say. Ideas spilled out every which way He was a motormouth back in the day Fifty years later, he still has his say...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Poetry Soup
Someone’s dreams and hopes set afloat, sail across the poetry soup, someone else’s tears, loss and heartache, has just made me weep in my room. I pen a song and sing it loud, laugh with a limerick I wrote, someone out...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flamboyant Swashes
Flamboyant swashes; flaming crimson, could be my face, as the flyswatter-hand could impress such lettering upon my cheek. so I severed the crescent-angel of my imagination, dashed my dreamy cursive, expunged the end; held my breath as I curtailed the honey-alphabet. Nun...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, angst, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Queen of Merryland
We had heard of the Queen of Merryland for weeks and weeks. Everyone wanted to see her, our imagination in high rising peaks. She came in with an entourage, and we stopped being excited. She looked persnickety, pinched,...Read the rest...
Categories: 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Rhiners Diners Cool Cats
Grown men in fuzzy hats riding three-wheeled bikes Try to envision oldster type males on oversized trikes. One was a walrus, you cannot fool me at all, said the Prez And on his head, of course, he wore...Read the rest...
Categories: 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Beauty Shoes for Beauty Toes
Beauty shoes for beauty toes. When it will stop, no one but knows. I felt like a princess when I saw these heels. Each toe was crying at the horribleness each feels. I had shoved them down into this...Read the rest...
Categories: 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Fall and grow
Trees fall Trees grow To fall and sleep it is for the dead, to fall and rise it is for the living For I have hope to keep moving, and the future to trust the faith...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Path
As I walked along the way Beside the grand bay I searched for million ways Lest I shall go astray Lonely and cold Breathless I...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Many are in Your Family
Omega was friends with a bunny Which brought on a relationship with six No seven, eight, nine, ten, then twenty bunnies. You have a large family Omega observed. Soon bunnies were hopping all over his feet Bunnies were lounging on...Read the rest...
Categories: 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lovely Bird is Haughty
Lovely bird wears her lifesaver with a haughty air. The rest of us act like it’s normal and we don’t care. In truth, she is a snob, so we do not let her play. So we are jealous...Read the rest...
Categories: 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Reserve player
I showed MOM the trophy our team had won. She said, "WOW, Congratulations, my son, How many goals DID you score?" I replied, "MA‘AM, learn rules more; You ask DAD, reserve player can't score one!" Palindrome Limerick Poetry Contest Sponsored by:...Read the rest...
Categories: 4th grade, mom, son,
Form: Limerick

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