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.
Be StillPause and pull over
To get funny wildflowers from their roots
Let your hair down and dance in the rain
With your butterfly-covered boots
Let your mind wander as you sleep
And get lost in the twinkling tent up above
Remember...
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Categories:
anxiety, beautiful, children, journey,
Form: Rhyme
STATION MEETINGSTATION MEETING
The time has come
years depart
I slap your stomach
You throttle me for my
gems
I have none
my gems are the stars
sardines swim towards me
chains rattle loose
to the children in the
Wilderness I flee
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Categories:
children, 10th grade, africa, character,
Form: Verse
Tooting Her Own HornMark Allen was ten years old, and his favorite things were trains;
Like teal moments after the storm, when colorful beauty remains.
Mark had a shiny, toy train set, and he was frequently adding cars;
As people often...
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Categories:
children, dream, fantasy, fun,
Form: Couplet
Sorrow's ChildrenPersephone, as sorrow and as grief,
The world and all its tales are told in brief.
The mirth of all the ages comes to this:
A sunlit sorrow and a broken bliss.
The laws of sorrow rule the lives...
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Categories:
children, endurance, feelings, life, myth,
Form: Rhyme
wish for her childrenBorn in a trailer
Not a mobile home
Not classy
Lived her life behind a junk yard fence
With fighting parents
Both of them angry addicts
Decides she will become rich and famous
No help and little education
Not much talent
She is a...
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Categories:
children, parents,
Form: Free verse
A Christian JourneyThe human form is a vehicle...a housing -- yet a temple, through which The Divine can manifest his glorious kingdom on earth...when and if we act accordingly, direct our "Us" tenant spirits to behave righteous...
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Categories:
children, christian, environment, growth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Miners Eating DessertDigging through the sweetest of a fine soft solid substance,
Looking for the velvety amber caramels and chocolates,
But such indulgence all too often renders them as delicates....
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Categories:
children, extended metaphor, food,
Form: Sijo
VOICESWake up!
The voices in my head keep screaming
Open your eyes
The voices keeps echoing
Always waking me up
Whenever life hits me down
From the mountain top
Down to the depths of the valley.
Look up!
The...
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Categories:
africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Narrative
NOTICEThey don't want you
To elevate without them
Even when they're not supportive.
They know your history,
Victory and glory; so they want to be part of it
They always want to be part of your glowing
But not part...
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Categories:
africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE No More
Angst of grievous hunger prevails
Seeking benefactors to grant their need
Hoping truth of compassion creed
To work well, shutting woe-filled wails.
Wrestling amidst rigorous plight
Street kids yearn for hunger to end
With heaven to open and send
Nutritious...
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Categories:
children, christian, god, how
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
REJECTIONEvery rejection, a redirection
Don't be ashamed or let it tame you.
Don't let them change you,
If they won't accept who you are.
People don't value
What they can't control or own,
Just stay in your lane doing...
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Categories:
africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic
ACCURACYTake your time
Don't Rush it
Whatever you rushes
Always ends with regret or correction
Go slowly, so you can see clearly
Giving the best and what's right not being the first.
Always calculate
So you'll be accurate
So...
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Categories:
africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Didactic
The Girl I CarryI met her once in a house with no laughter,
where the wallpaper peeled like old regrets,
where the air tasted of dust and waiting.
She sat on the staircase, small knees to her chest,
counting the footsteps that...
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Categories:
angst, childhood, children,
Form: Free verse
Creature of Doom
What creature is this that cometh near
His luggage filled to the brim with fear
Crushing our lives, crushing our beliefs
O whence for me shall bring only griefs
What of the men whom now weep?
What of the woman...
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Categories:
children, dark, death, fear,
Form: Lyric
I’m a nobody, untilI’m just a cackling controller
(sit straight, listen, stop talking)
Until I stop to look into your eyes
It’s the wonder in them which makes me a teacher
I’m just a watching monitor
(settle down, take your things, write...
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Categories:
children, emotions, innocence, kindergarten,
Form: Free verse
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