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Best Nursery Rhymes Poems

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Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, fantasy, halloween, humorous,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member A Nook and a Storybook
Oh, give me a nook and a storybook
there at my mother’s knee.
Or tucked in bed, a pillow at my head
as father reads to me.

To hear...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, books, cute, memory,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poor Peter Pumpkin
Poor Peter Pumpkin had a very itty bitty head.
So the farmer made him stay inside the garden bed.

The farmer said that he was going to...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, fantasy, funny, holiday,
Form: Couplet
A Mothers Heart
My heart is full of unbounded love
Bleeding sacrifice and pain 
Spilling over with devotion
pouring down like monsoon rain

With the vastness of the ocean 
It beats...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, daughter, emotions, heart, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unconditional Love
Like the sun lights up the sky, 
A little girl when she was born, 
She snuggled right into our hearts
With heaven's sparkle in
Her eyes stole...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nursery rhymes, granddaughter, grandparents, love, sports,
Form: Free verse



Seasons To Wonder
All the evergreens are greener
And the pines are darker skinned
Only leaves that bear the burn marks 
Are the witnesses of wind.

On the grass the dew...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, nature, seasons, me, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Excited Teddy Bears
Two teddy bears, named
Ted and Fred,
Packed a picnic basket with buns,
And home-made bread,
Keep to the path their mummy said,
So off they went, along the way,
Happy...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Soup
A world community like no other, this troupe
Of writers and lovers of insightful poetry
Gathered under the imprimatur of Poetry Soup --
Delightful, inspirational, sometimes contrary 
With...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, poems, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Twisted Goose Goes Cuckoo For Haiku
For P.D's "Going Haiku Crazy" Contest

 
How Many?

going to St. Ives
met folks on that smelly bus
more than I could count

Just Sleep Walking?

Wee Willy Winky
caught outside...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, funnyold, old,
Form: Haiku
The Story of You
I  could hear my own heart beating 
So strong the rhythm grew
It echoes like thunder 
as it tells me the story of you.

You surround...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, romance,
Form: Narrative
I Once Met a Woman
I once met a woman
Who is a rock of strength
She would break the wind
And go to any length 
With every single word 
She could cut...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, appreciation, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What Will Be Will Be
What will be will be
No pitter-patter of tiny, wee feet
No building castles on a sandy beach
No tiny hands for to lead and to hold
No dressing...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, allusion, destiny, sorrow,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Will You Join Me
Today I will enjoy the sun
drink every drop of golden light
sing the nursery rhymes for fun
and spread my wings again for  flight
I'll soar above...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nursery rhymes, happiness, romance,
Form: Dizain
Free Cee Nursery Crimes
there once was a time of simple pleasures
like hop-scotch, marbles and electric trains
hop-scotch turnd into scotch on the rocks
when i got drunk enough to realize...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, angst,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Twilight
I.
Twilight,
The evening spreads itself across the sky
Like a canvas,
Splashed with hues of frantic yellow, somber blue,
And hectic red,
Captured in a shapeless frame
And hung upon the...

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Categories: nursery rhymes, age, death, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs