Short Nursery Rhyme Poems

Short Nursery Rhyme Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short Nursery Rhyme poems by PoetrySoup poets. Search short Nursery Rhyme poetry by poem length and keyword.


Premium Member Tea Pots

Steaming tea pots help a lot
When troubles come your way
Simply pour a cup
Rest and look up
Giving your troubles away
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Cheesy Fries Hot

Cheesy fries hot
Cheesy fries cold
Some like them hot
Some like them cold
Cheesy fries in the fridge
Nine months old

Premium Member Snory Cory

there was a boy named Cory
one night he claimed great glory
	his moniker came
	he arose to fame
his snoring laudatory
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Monkeys

You shouldn't poke at monkeys
	unless you're a dummkopf
Who gets precisely what's deserved --
	your fingers bitten off.
Form: Quatrain

Pinch'In Nickels

Pinching nickels for the cause
of selling bottles for the law
Deposits money into kids
and makes them candy for the awws
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member Catnaps Nursery Rhyme

Tom is happy to see
The hog of a dog napping
The sign says beware
Feline’s do not care
Throwing rocks at that dog laughing
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Fiddledy Dee

Hey fiddledy dee
A sailor’s life for me

Hey fiddledy aye
We sail at break of day

Hey fiddledy dum
Our trip is all done
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Warped Wrhymes 1

Jack and Jill
Went up the hill
And there she broke her water

She laid down
Upon the ground
And bore them both a daughter
© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Word of the Day March 11, 2021

tutelary
 
adjective TOO-tuh-lair-ee

1 : having the guardianship of a person or a thing

2 : of or relating to a guardian
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member The Cat Nursery Rhyme

Cat cat wear your cap, Cat cat go catch a rat. Cat cat paws to tap, Cat cat can you rap? Cat cat now take your nap.

Premium Member Billy and Hilly

Slick little Billy Willy
Smirked at Silly Hilly
Thinking they’d have fun
When the school days done
Playing house at Auntie Milly’s
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Little Dieter

Little Dieter, pork pie eater,
Had a sow and couldn't feed her,
Ground her up with sweet potatoes
Eats the pies all night and dayo.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member School

It’s paining, it’s boring
The children are all snoring
They got out of bed
To school they did head
The teaching they find abhorring
Form: Rhyme

Memorial Day

A vampire known as Good Prince Harry
Set his fangs on the Virgin Mary
He took one bite
And saw the light
Combusting in the cemetery
Form: Limerick

Premium Member They Matched Wits

Mother Goose met Dr. Zeuss
  They circled each other for a while
Mrs. Goose lunged for his caboose
  He tickled her wit, then smiled

TALKING TO PINOCCHIO

Pinocchio why do you
Continue to lie all the time
Knowing that when you do
Your nose just grows and grows
Until it gets cut off
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

Current Nursery Rhyme

A Current Nursery Rhyme

Hey google google
The cat and the poodle
The cow jumped over the moon
To be seen on Google sky soon
Form: Rhyme

Nursery Rhyme

They make us sick and take our blood
They make us sick and take our blood
They make us sick and take our blood
God told them to do so.
© Chris Conn  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Lazy Daisy

Lazy Daisy sat on a couch
Lazy Daisy was a slouch
All the free money
And all the free checks
Couldn’t give Daisy some self respect
Form: Rhyme

Nursery Rhyme

Zero Three Four Nine
When Will You Shine?
Five One Six Four
What is the score
Zero Five5 Eight8
You can abrogate.
Note.SailMan Shah.
Form: Rhyme

THE CATERPILLAR

This caterpillar 
Fell out the tree 
Fell out the tree 
Fell out the tree 
This caterpillar 
Fell out the tree 
Now he can’t see
© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Mouse and the Clock

Hickory dickory dock 
the mouse broke that clock
it should have struck one
and it won't stick two
so he bugged the old lady in the shoe.

Colville

There was an old man from Colville
Who lived on top of a tall hill
Surrounded by deer
Who lived in great fear
Of mountain lions so awful
Form: Limerick

Notions and Sentiments Following a Somewhat Salacious Encounter

Painted were her eyes, 
Somewhat azure and syphilitic, her heart;
And when I got home I realized, 
I'd just fallen in love with a tart(!)
Form: Limerick

Uri Had a Little Spoon

Uri had a little spoon
He stroked it with intent
And everywhere that Uri went
The spoons were proper bent

© Gail Foster 23rd March 2019
Form: Rhyme

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