Love for Children
In rooms where futures are decided,
old men argued about small voices,
children who had been silenced
for a thousand years.
"Should we teach them in English,
the language of their masters?
Or let them speak
in their grandmother's tongue?"
One truth burned bright:
every word they chose
would echo in ten million hearts.
They decided:
Let the Kannada child
dream in Kannada first,
let the Tamil child
sing Tamil
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Categories:
for children, children, education, love, old,
Form: Free verse
Books for Children
Children
imagine,
but their imagination
is still not enough.
Many images
are preparing to enter the children.
Children
cannot read books with just words.
Without beautiful pictures,
they cannot enter the stories.
Without fun pictures,
the stories cannot enter the children.
Without books,
children cannot enter the world.
Without children,
the world cannot enter the future.
The world will not become
what children imagine.
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Categories:
for children, books, child, children, world,
Form: Free verse
Monorhyme for Children
Goliath frog jumped out of a mailbox
Chased off a dog, a hog, and a fluffy fox
They straight away ran up to a giant ox
ox was terribly ill with itchy chicken pox
You two are on your own! Yelled the irritated fox
Goliath frog jumped all the way back to that mailbox
What do we do now? The hog
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Categories:
for children, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Love For Children
Children are the cause
Why parents remain strong
Suffer long and fight.
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Categories:
for children, children, engagement, parents, perspective,
Form: Senryu
THANKFUL FOR CHILDREN AND JFK
Today I’m thankful for children
and for John F. Kennedy..
Who said:
Children are the messages we send
to a time we will not see.
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Categories:
for children, children, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Feel Sorry for Children
I feel sorry for the children who do not know
Where grandma and grandpa and the puppy go
Some have been told that dead is dead.
No spiritual beliefs have ever been said.
The soul is something of which they do not know.
They have never been told of it, they miss the glow
Of spiritual truths, they think that dead
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Categories:
for children, death,
Form: Rhyme
THANKFUL FOR MAGIC AND FOR CHILDREN
Today I’m thankful for magic…for children…
and for the wonderfully innocent view of the world they bring…
Because…
when we are fortunate enough to see the world through the eyes of a child
we’re be able to see magic…in everything
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Categories:
for children, children, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Packing for Children
To pack for a weekend
With children requires
Much more than a tankful
Of gas and good tires.
You have to remember
Their PJ’s and clothes,
Their brushes for teeth
And for hair, I suppose.
Shampoo, soap and toothpaste
And lotion for itches,
The books they are reading,
The iPads and Switches.
Perhaps a stuffed creature
Or doll that’s a fave
And surely some snacks
Of
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Categories:
for children, children, travel,
Form: Rhyme
The Tree of Fame - For Children
There was a witch who lived in a tree
Truly loving and kindly was she
Although she wasn't glorious of face
Her heart was truly in the right place.
The witch loved to wake to sound of birds
To their songs she would write her own words
Then she'd join in, a choir they became
Her home was known as The Tree
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Categories:
for children, character, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Monorhyme Poem For Children
a cute little nipper
sat on the big dipper
his voice was so chipper
when he lost his slipper
it’s gone said the dipper
I know said the nipper
it fell on a clipper
I’ll need a new slipper
laughter from the dipper
charged up little nipper
he leaned down to the clipper
and retrieved his slipper
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Categories:
for children, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Monorhyme
Hell Is For Children
“The title Hell is for children,” is inspired by Pat Benatar’s song of the same name, it’s about a psychologist’s therapy session with a small child who suffers from dissociative amnesia trigged by childhood trauma.
“Hell is for children”.
You were my shadow,
But now you have gone,
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Categories:
for children, abuse, child, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Toys For Children
Christmas
Holds
Rich
Inspiration
Selecting
Toys
Making
Awesome
Surprises
Too
Often
You
Supply
Faded
Ordinary
Resolutions
Combine
Hysterical
Items
Like
Dinos
Reciting
English
Novels!
December 11, 2022
Contest: Christmas Poetry Contest - Acrostic
Sponsor: Bobby May
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Categories:
for children, funny, silly, write,
Form: Acrostic
Christmas Toys For Children
C-Chris Kringle's
H-Hideaway
R- Readily
I-Infinite
S-Santa's
T-Toy
M-Making
A-All
S-Successfully
T-Trucks
O-Operation
Y-Yo Yo’s
S-Scooters
F-Fun
O-Ornaments
R-Reflecting
C-Creating
H-Happiness
I-Intriguing
L-Laughter
D-Dreaming
R-Radiant
E-Eyes
N-Nonstop
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Categories:
for children, christmas,
Form: Acrostic
On a Roll, Poem For Children
Let's roll the dice
and we'll begin,
to see what rolls and turns and spins -
an apple, falling from a branch,
a carousel where horses prance,
the ocean when it rolls to shore,
a bouncing ball across the floor,
a skipping rope going round in loops,
a brightly painted hula hoop,
the sun that dances in the sky,
our bicycles when they go by,
the
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Categories:
for children, childhood, earth, innocence, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Easter Song For Children
I am on the hunt for Jesus today
He loves me true, so happy Sunday!
He died for me, he died for you!
Is that an Easter egg painted blue?
I run through the grass, it tickles my toes.
Jesus is watching, he goes where I go.
I am on the hunt for Easter eggs true.
Here is a large pink one
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Categories:
for children, celebration, christian, easter, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
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