Children’s poems can be funny, inspirational, goofy, and more. These are all types and themes of poems for children or about childhood. This poetry resource includes rhyming, classic, long, and short poems for children and many more fun categories. When reading and writing modern children's poems, age does not matter. You can be a young person and write about things you enjoy, or you can be a child at heart and share your memorable childhood experiences. The key is to have fun and write about things that appeal to today's kids.
My son'sI have sons, I am so proud off
Two tall young men with great futures ahead
I can't believe God gave me two
I am blessed to have both of you
I look forward to see what your future...
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Categories:
appreciation, love, my children,
Form: Free verse
The Empty RoomThe room beckons to me,
Its silence speaks to me,
There’s a volume in its emptiness,
A mystery in its void.
The past is revealed,
The hidden is shown,
I see children in a meadow,
Playing in the embrace of twilight.
There’s a...
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Categories:
children, dark, lost, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Children along the riverWe played a game amongst twisted trees
Then studied the decaying river bank
And as we crouched down onto our knees
Our paper boats sailed away and sank
We rolled around the blades of grass
So fresh and pea...
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Categories:
children, memory,
Form: Rhyme
PLAYING IN THE DIRT
She is 15 months old…this beautiful little squirt
she likes nothing more than walking barefoot everywhere
and playing in the dirt.
In fact she loves dirt so much…(her parents tell us with a moan)
they believe she thinks dirt...
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Categories:
children,
Form: Rhyme
Drawing Sad
I went to the man at school today
He chats a bit and watches me play
Asking questions about my feeling
Feelings that have got me thinking
How I am, and what I enjoy to do
Where I go, what...
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Categories:
art, children, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Empty Room
Not For Contest
Roll back to the years of innocence where memories were born,
To those magical sounds of love as Christmas day dawned,
The excitement of love's joy bouncing on mom and dads bed, ...
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Categories:
children, christmas, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Seedlings
I came across
lost seedlings,
abandoned
in a musty bin
of a garage.
Then heard
a meek mist pleading,
" oh, fern soil,
praise them
with your yard."
" Douse kaleidoscope
cool droplets,
those days
scorched
furnace dark;"
"And clover-cove
when
frigid snow
abrades
their glinting...
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Categories:
caregiving, children, devotion, education,
Form: Rhyme
Always On My MindMy sweet child
I know the distance has come between us
And from my suffering you may feel that I've left you behind
And I know that to you it might be
Another heart-ache
To me
It's a slight consolation
To...
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Categories:
absence, blue, child, children,
Form: Rhyme
My poppa's trickI'd sit on his lap, content as can be,
until he'd slide those dentures out
and giggle with glee..
My two year old self would reach out
to grab, he'd suck them back in
before I could nab..
With time as...
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Categories:
age, children, family,
Form: Light Verse
What have we done to Generation Z?What have we done to Generation Z?
Left them huge debts, who could break free?
Inflated the currency, raised every price
If you like your kids, how was that nice?
Playgrounds turned into pixelated parks,
Teens regret childhood chats with...
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Categories:
america, betrayal, childhood, children,
Form: Lyric
Writing Straight with Crooked LinesWould that my poet's heart could fly,
but an artist's anchor is his eye.
I still see the magic in mere flesh,
so a humble fate is mine...
Your form shall be revered, my dear;
I pray you never need...
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Categories:
children, love, parents, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Walk YesterdayGeese are roaming through my neighborhood
Littering every single inch of sidewalk with feathers and poop
Contrast to the perfectly manicured lawns
Of perfectly manicured suburban families
Too perfect
I feel like I found true happiness on my walk...
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Categories:
adventure, children, earth, god,
Form: Free verse
Innocent EyesEmpty shells at sand
Nothing in eyes of adult
To child eyes aglow....
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Categories:
children, engagement, innocence, perspective,
Form: Haiku
A DebtIt is a debt; nearly one out of three has sadly paid
Life started to grow, but its first breath was never made
A branch on the family tree that produced no shade
Pain of such an investment...
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Categories:
child, children, loss, mother,
Form: Monorhyme
When Children Play
When children play,
Imagination, their fast friend,
takes them on grand adventures.
Adults observe their little ones,
cherishing those formative times
when children play.
Kids become heroes
when they join hands with
Imagination, their fast friend.
Let’s encourage kids
to use Imagination, which
takes them...
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Categories:
children, growth, imagination,
Form: Verse
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