Children’s poems can be funny, inspirational, goofy, and more. These are all types and themes of poems for children or about childhood. This poetry resource includes rhyming, classic, long, and short poems for children and many more fun categories. When reading and writing modern children's poems, age does not matter. You can be a young person and write about things you enjoy, or you can be a child at heart and share your memorable childhood experiences. The key is to have fun and write about things that appeal to today's kids.
The Cycle 7: ProvidenceEndless machinations of celestial inclination
stretch, deform and incline.
The children’s imaginations ignore Domination.
Of only absence; it’s betrayal He finds.
Worship was briefly offered up high,
and it pleased their luminous Giant.
But then they turned to machines and...
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Categories:
allegory, betrayal, children, god,
Form: Free verse
ALL ARE CHILDRENWhy don’t we show them love?
Why are we so rude?
Why don’t we treat them well?
Why don’t you show equality?
Why are they mistreated
Why! Yet it is your blood, red blood.
Is it because of their skin colour?
Is...
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Categories:
children,
Form: Free verse
I Would like two of thoseI would like two of those I told the lady of the house.
I was staring at her two mushroom plant holders.
I can pay whatever you want, I told her.
I could tell that she was pleased.
I...
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Categories:
children,
Form: Free verse
Brain Light A Nursery Style RhymeThe brain beams like the brightest light,
once to the left then once to the right;
Unlimited storage for all those silly facts
like a big box of endless toys and jax;
Once to the left then once...
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Categories:
children, emotions, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Hansel And GretelAnd Mina rose up after Hansel's kiss
His kiss for her was a heaven's bliss
And Gretel found her forever
In Edward's arms, no stormy weather
And they all lived happily ever after
Hunting witches from...
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Categories:
children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems XIChildren's Poems XI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
To My Child, Unborn
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
How many were the nights, enchanted
with despair and...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, father,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems XChildren's Poems X
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Always
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Know in your heart that I love you as no other,
and...
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Categories:
baseball, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poem VIIIChildren's Poems VII
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sailing to My Grandfather, for George Hurt
by Michael R. Burch
This distance between us
—this vast sea
of...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poem VIChildren's Poems VI
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Springtime Prayer
by Michael R. Burch
They'll have to grow like crazy,
the springtime baby geese,
if they're to...
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Categories:
baby, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems VChildren's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Picturebook Princess
by Michael R. Burch
for Keira
We had a special visitor.
Our world became suddenly brighter.
She was...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IVChildren's Poems IV
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Boundless
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Every day we whittle away at the essential solidity of him,
and...
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Categories:
children, baseball, boy, child, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IIIChildren's Poems III
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Success
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
We need our children to keep us humble
between toast and marmalade;
there...
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Categories:
boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IIChildren's Poems II - Lullabies
These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
Sappho's Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
Hushed yet melodic, the hills and the valleys
sleep...
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Categories:
boy, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Children's Poems IThese are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families.
The Desk
by Michael R. Burch
for Jeremy
There is a child I used to know
who sat, perhaps, at this same...
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Categories:
child, childhood, children, family,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
beautiful, children, color, earth,
Form: Idyll (Idyl)
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