Kids Rhyme Poems

A broken-hearted lady shuts her eyes
and summons forth sweet scenes from days long past.
She loved him so. His promises gave rise
to firm assurances their would...

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Fido

I took Fido out for a walk
I knew that the neighbours would talk
His ears stood up proud
His breathing was loud
And his teeth were like big...

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Ducks line up behind Mommy
  swimming all in a perfect row

Kids build sand castles
  precariously balanced, just so

Red-and-white bobbers bob up and down
...

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Happy Snappy Ladybug me.
I am as cheerful as you think I ought to be.
I fly brief ways from flower to flower.
Some are tasty, others are...

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Another drop in the glass.

I see things from my past, which seemed happy but turn bad fast, seeing new faces around my house all the...

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If prison waits for parents whose kid dies (left in a car),
What then for bigot president, earth's brightest racist star,
This narcissistic fool of fools, who's...

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In darkness, my soul once did reside                  ...

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Black Dog 2

Mary was a single Mom;
Her stress was very great.
Sometimes her kids ate crackers,
And sometimes the rent was late.

Black Dog! What’s your purpose?
Why are...

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Have you read a poem lately; they're all written in ‘free verse’.
Like the murmurs of a hippy high on drugs or something worse,
They're a dangling...

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Does chocolate milk come from a brown cow
Is a rabbit's foot lucky for the bunny
What good is a wish on a falling star
Are dad jokes...

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The party had fizzled into a foul mood.
The kids were all cranky, unruly, and rude.
When all trace of patience they’d tied up in knots,
In clumped...

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(title shamelessly borrowed from Daniel C. Dennett’s book of the same name)

Brainwashed parents, brainwashed kids.
Abort the vortex: hit the skids!
Become the one who dares to...

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How, I wonder, do present people not
realize that what they do has been done?
That all their new fads, their new ideas,
have all had their day...

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Life is like a pretty flower,
Living life hour by hour.

Life is like a windy day, 
Watching your worries blow away.

Life is like a sunny day,
If...

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This is a message for the kids that I love,
That were sent to me from the stars above. 

Your dad loves you and always will,
For...

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Unusual thing:  a Sickness lived in There…
(The Place I spent Walpurgis Night – O, Fool!)
The kids said something rotten in the air
Infected all who’d...

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We all live 
under the same stars
The harvest moon 
mysterious Mars

We’re all pretty small… 
under the vast Milky Way
just another speck
just a brief day

We all...

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Having one's person embellished with tattoos is all the rage today.
Used to be that only carousing tars got tattooed in old Mandalay!
They might have an...

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Leftovers

Don’t let Christmas come in too much of a hurry
I really can’t handle one more turkey curry
The kids now want something else for their teas
So...

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Who Don’t Like Kids

Glee is a word that I’d rarely choose
My lexicon has it, but it’s little used
But now it’s right there on the tip...

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