Best For Children Poems
Below are the all-time best For Children poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of for children poems written by PoetrySoup members
To My ChildrenDrive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...
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Categories:
for children, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
for children, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
TranquilityOh little one, how soon you'll be
In turbulence of puberty.
I will hold tight your days of youth
And share with you my honest truth
That...
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Categories:
for children, children, god, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form:
Couplet
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
for children, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
for children, children, fun, snow, winter,
Form:
Concrete
If Only My Wish Would Come TrueImages of children dwelling in developing world
In plight of poverty~~ some two billion strong,
Fly a flag of existence, waving distress unfurled,
Crooning mournful song: is this...
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Categories:
for children, children, hope, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Miracle On Ford StreetSt Anthony's orphanage was founded some thirty years ago
For homeless and orphaned children, by a priest Father Angelo
Every child was made welcome; race and religion...
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Categories:
for children, care, children, christmas, prayer,
Form:
Narrative
Screaming At the SkyScreaming at the Sky
Mothers screaming mournfully at a deaf sky
holding their heads helplessly as they cry
pitiful tears for innocent, defenseless children slaughtered
in fatal cross...
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Categories:
for children, children, drug, grief, hurt,
Form:
Verse
Your Child's EyesThe innocence lost so long ago
The undying faith we used to know
The gentle rain of a summer's skies
You can find it all in your child's...
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Categories:
for children, children, world, time,
Form:
Couplet
Little GiantsThe child is a poet with innocent eyes
And a bumpity A-B-C rhyme,
A dancer whose feet with the rhythm of life
Move in jubilant one-two-three time.
The child...
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Categories:
for children, children, happiness, innocence,
Form:
Quatrain
When I Hold Your HandWhen I hold your hand, happily you trek along
Because you trust me to know where I'm going.
Listening to my stories, you hold my sight...
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Categories:
for children, care, children, parents,
Form:
Verse
The Mustard SeedThe mustard seed
a wild mustard seed took flight
carried aloft in gathering light
over thistle'd sage and poppies
in countless colorful copies
as brash...
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Categories:
for children, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form:
Couplet
What More Can We DoHaunted by the death of dreams
and slaughtering of innocence
but too afraid to dig up the bones
and examine our own mistakes,
we bury...
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Categories:
for children, anger, children, death, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
for children, beauty, children,
Form:
Questionku
A Little SnowflakeThere once was a little snowflake
that was beautiful, cold and white
He was created up high within the clouds
during a storm one winters night
There were millions...
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Categories:
for children, beautiful, children, snow, weather,
Form:
Ballad