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Best Kid Poems

Below are the all-time best Kid poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of kid poems written by PoetrySoup members


To Be a Kid Once Again
I don't need to remember what it was like  to be  a kid

 I don' t need to memorize where all the fun...

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Categories: growing up, happiness, kid,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Littlest Snowman
He scooped and he packed
He rolled me good and round,
When all was done, I stood there
Only three feet off the ground

I had wondered why...
Why did...

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Categories: boy, brother, children, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Word Squirrel
Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal

Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can...

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Categories: animal, children, education, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Bedrooms
I walk past empty bedrooms that once held my boys
The beds made so perfect, the absence of noise
Books there on the book shelf and not...

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Categories: kid,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kids: Funny, Poor, and Sweet-F
We loved the lollipops, cracker jacks, and Holloway candy sticks.               ...

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Categories: beauty, candy, child, kid,
Form: Prose



Larking In the Mud With Grandad
I, to the pasture's green could run, 
and fly a kite beside the sun,
but choose, I do, to linger still, 
among the dirt, what is...

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Categories: kid, childhood, fun, happy, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Was a Good Morning Until
My body tenses.
The soft padding of footy pajamas
approach
tiny fingers grip my eyelid
lift it....
Bright eyes gaze into
the freshly opened eye.
A voice shouts....DA!!!
The other eye opens.
Yes I'm...

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Categories: dad, fun, kid,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Must Be Kidding
My kid gets smarter every day
She queries in a thoughtful way:
"Are two M.D.'s a paradox?
Are kosher fish in spring 'May lox'?"
"Go ask your Mom". She...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kid,
Form: Rhyme
Fruits Colours
An apple is Red,
I like eating bread,
Banana is yellow,
I am jolly fellow,
Pear is green,
I am neat and clean,
Coconut is brown,
I am little clown,
All fruits are...

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© Neha Batra  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: color, fruit, kid, kindergarten,
Form: Rhyme
How To Eat An Oreo
Do you know exactly how to eat and Oreo,
Well to do it you,
You unscrew it.....very fast.
'Cause a kid will eat the middle of an Oreo...

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Categories: chocolate, food, kid,
Form: Lyric
Nail Polish
Nail Polish

I’ve polished all my fingers,
And polished all my toes.
There’s polish on my knees,
And even on my nose.

I’ve watched my sister do it.
She always gets...

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© Judy Valko  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: kids, giggle, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
In a Dark, Dark Room
I lay on my pillow in a dark, dark room
Staring out the window from my bed
The moon looks like Camembert floating in the sky
And I’m...

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Categories: kid, adventure, child, children, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Things Our Parents Said
The Things Our Parents Said
By Robert (Bob) Moore

The things that we remember, from days of long ago
we believed, it was all true, our parents told...

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Categories: kid, children, family, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Old Man With One Shoe
It was a homeless old man near a shoe store who fell asleep 
He was so tired that nap turned to a sleep that was...

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Categories: christian, grandfather, inspirational, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Suburban Summer
, 
riddles N' rainbows paintbrush the day
summer's heaviness invades
rain circumvents geraniums 
ant's N' azaleas dance through sidewalks 
where tiny green grass creep 'neath weeds 
to...

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Categories: kid, community, emotions, family, june,
Form: Alliteration

Book: Reflection on the Important Things