Short Parenting Poems

Short Parenting Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Parenting by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Parenting by length and keyword.


Premium Member The Joy of Parenting

    I bought myself four yogurts
      by morn they were all eaten

    Bought my kids four more
       ~ unsweetened
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Niche Parenting

when two
dissolve marriage,
resilient parents
continue trustworthy passage
for young
Form: Cinquain

Faith Part 2

I
Faith is a safe place in the Universe

II
Science & politics mock childlike faith

III
Parents, politics say: trust me, I know!
© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Monoku

Premium Member Mother Goose and Father Time

Mother Goose and Father Time
All together had children nine.
Love ruled hers,
His were let free.
All wound up productive, happy and fine.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member IF WE WANT TO KEEP THEM CLOSE

May we be blessed to embrace the irony
that the faster our children grow…
if we want to keep them close to us…
we have to let them go.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Footprints

mama taught me 
not to drag my feet 
as i walk through the sands of time
a thirsty soul might come looking
and find their way 
to the watering hole 

~ footprints

Premium Member No One Can Be Trusted

Unnatural disrespect toward teachers
Angry child trusts no one
A disconnect somewhere

Unnatural disrespect toward mother
Bereft child has learned
That no one can be trusted
Form: Kimo

Premium Member Parenting Is 4 Everyone

Parenting is for everyone when you grow up each day 

You have good feelings n bad feelings day by day

You have to know the children everyday

To make sure thinks okay in everyway

Parenting

My kids are always crying. 
I’ve tried trains and games and Lego Sets
But I don’t know what they like. 
Exhausted, I turn on the TV
All is quiet. Together, 
we sip apple juice and watch cartoons
© C.W. Bryan  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sijo

Premium Member PARENTING

May we be blessed as parents…
knowing there will always be something as parents we lack…
that our children understand 
even when we are not there to hold their hands
we will always have their back.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Ransom For Fat People

Fat people are harder to kidnap I'm told They eat more so ransom's increased ten-fold Seems hardly worthwhile They were looking for a pile Got the ransom and a lesson in parenting untold
fun
Form: Limerick

Premium Member resolve of sainted mother

The super low-grade low-brow, low-born guy
Is not at all a low life, but we don’t know why.
Possibly it is the resolve of is sainted mother
She made most of her parenting mistakes on his low-brow brother.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member 3 PLACES

May we be blessed to always show up for our children
In 3 important places…no matter how much they’ve grown

In front of them…to cheer them on
behind them…to have their back
and next to them…so they’ll never feel alone.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

All the King's Horses

Parenting is now a 
full contact sport

No lines demarcated,
no rules to enforce

The children still babies,
the adults still kids

Diapering the future
—attached at the hip

(State College Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Role Models

Here’s how you do it 
   Let me show you
Be it art, music, or carpentry
   A role model is key

Yet when it comes to parenting
   Not every parent shows
For not every parent is qualified
   As their children all too well know
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member At Fourteen

romance is a TV schedule--
your first kiss doesn't win final rose.
parents might require parenting.
your father's absence was sufferable.
you'll parent the other one soon.
your first rum ends with murder.
alcohol poisons resilience!
Form: Other

Premium Member Parenting

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                                                      Quickly feed zip-zoom
                                           Babies in the trumpet shaped nest
                                                     Can't take time to rest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Parenting 101

you do your best
forget the rest

no place for regrets
remorse it only begets

children are willing to forgive
to find harmony live and let live

parents admit they’re just human
omniscience just an illusion



AP: 3rd place 2020
Form: Couplet

Premium Member HOW TO SPEAK TO YOUR CHILDREN

Brooke Hampton…a children’s book author
Is where I’m pulling today’s Nella’s blessing from:

Speak to your children 
as if they are the wisest
kindest
most beautiful and magical humans on Earth….
for what they believe…
is what they become.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Parenting

Awesome
                                    Blushing,
                                                    Chocolates
                                                                         Disliking
Growing kids feel smarter, making parents suffer!
Form: ABC

Premium Member Children Learn From Others

sage slivers of truth 
bandied about by children
who learn from parents

absolutism
learned at daddy’s knees
reinforced by mom

school shakes them up
new ideas from others
often changing them

not from the teachers
from their knowledgeable peers
who know everything
Form: Senryu

Tawny Frogmouth

One look. You smile, you nod, you fall for him
Eyes enchanting, breathing dead bark of tree
Showy singer, poor nest, pretentious whim
Yet, expert in stumping, purrs when with glee
Takes up parenting with love, face never once grim
So uxorious, love-rich. Why ours not so be?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Helicopter Parent

she is overprotective, pushing helicopter parenting craziness to the edge
she chaperones her daughters on dates, sitting in the middle of boy’s car 
father is at the end of his patience, perched on a precarious parenting ledge
threatening to leave if her helicopter parenting goes much more far
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Teen

I spied them through our fence. 
They sparred with knuckled fist, 
a father with unruly buck 
beside back door for violent ruck 
that stag was bound to win.

Young eyes that saw that vile display 
did not forget that horrid day,
and now know just how close 
that same scene could have been.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member RAISING CHILDREN

Whatever you do as parents remember this one thing
If you please…
How the raising of your children is a lot like planting trees:

You nurture them with your time
your energy
your food
your water
your sun

But it isn’t until years later…
while sitting in their shade
you know how well you’ve done.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

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