Kids Verse Poems
These Kids Verse poems are examples of Verse poems about Kids. These are the best examples of Verse Kids poems written by international poets.
Abandoned Farm in Northern Victoria
For decades, motor cars
have driven past in haste,
eyes not straying far
from the highway to where,
set back and obscured
by scrub,
an abandoned farm
is slowly succumbing to rot.
I...
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verse, absence, farm, identity, loss,
Why I Wrote this PoemI didn’t write this poem
Because I was supposed to.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about my feelings.
I didn’t write this poem
to talk about the...
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Categories:
verse, 7th grade, 8th grade,
To which image should we cling?Trailing clouds of glory do we come
The magical moments of childhood
When we felt at one with the universe
Spinning dizzily with delight
Or with more of horrible...
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Categories:
verse, family, memory, nostalgia,
I move when my dog wants up on the sofa
He learned so quickly how to not bring sticks and balls back
He seems to think when he puts his head down
there should be a bowl...
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verse, poems,
Mushroom Picking
In the cool of an autumn morning
my father and his friend,
Jimmy Kerin, would go
mushroom picking in paddocks
way out past the last suburban fence.
I...
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verse, autumn, dad, memory, mother,
To Which Image Should We Cling
Nostalgia, my sometimes-friend, an unwavering realist,
visits from time to time with a flood of memories
centering around the polar opposites that...
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Categories:
verse, father daughter, forgiveness, nostalgia,
On the PlaygroundThe bypassing kids looked at me hastily with their eyes sparkling, foreheads sweaty
but somehow they weren’t tired.
The girl climbed onto the swings with...
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Categories:
verse, care, childhood, cute love,
The clocks tickingTime continues to slip past.
Like a river, a never-ending stream of micro seconds passing by.
You can't slow it down.
You can't halt it.
No matter how much...
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verse, time,
greatnessDonald Trump’s on trial - the first of many.
It’s a cold feeling, being judged
- with your future held in the balance
(Ok, that sounded SO much...
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Categories:
verse, humor, introspection, life, political,
Slots poker machines unsolved murders IllinoisLake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like...
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verse, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity,
That Was Then, This is NowThen:
The sun rises.
My world is small.
Everything has yet to happen.
One day, I'll go to school and learn important things -
Like my brothers -...
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Categories:
verse, age, childhood, growing up,
The West is the BestWhat is nowadays West, in a moment of relaxation
While you wait for the green on a crossroad:
Impressions dissolve in stuffiness, preceding rainfall,
Although there are no...
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Categories:
verse, deep, faith, introspection, western,
German Potato SaladThe grandfather on my mother's side was a cheapskate.
A real cheapskate.
One Christmas, he gave me a used paperback book.
Something like “Jimmy Plays Baseball.”
It was...
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Categories:
verse, grandfather, memory,
A Time To Reflect Expression Poetry Contest
Sponsor-Silent One
Written 4/15/24
A Time To Reflect
As my last sunset nears
I look back at the sunrise
And dwell on the past
I order another beer
And...
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Categories:
verse, memory, nostalgia,
That Was Then, This Is Now
I love hearing stories,
stories from my grandparents.
They love to tell stories,
stories from many years ago.
Grandma tells about bread,
when black showed up they would cut if off.
Then...
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Categories:
verse, blue, child, food, grandparents,