Nursery Rhyme Poems - Examples of all types of nursery rhyme poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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SUMMERTIMESummertime is here
Summertime is here
I won’t shed a tear
Because summertime is here
I’m going to have fun
I’m going to have fun
Jump around and run
And stretch out in the sun
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Categories:
kid, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
WOODY THE PIGEONWoody the pigeon
Lives in the tree
Can you imagine
Such a glee
A lifetime partner
To share his days
With eggs to father
That his girl layed
Woody the pigeon
Shared his tree
With beautiful imogen
The girl he needs
The little eggs hatch
Out pops...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, 1st grade, bird, family,
Form: Rhyme
Cold PorridgePatrick, Pearl and Phillip were fond siblings, in halcyon days of fairy tales;
Long beloved of Mother and Father, like beloved ballads of all nightingales.
Father was a successful tailor, creating finest clothes for women and men;
And...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, adventure, family, fantasy, food,
Form: Couplet
A Past PastimeHumpty Dumpty lived in make-believe land, like dreamy shadows get long;
And he dwelt in a house near a wall, among merry, crimson, oriole throngs.
He had a figure equally rotund and jolly, and was therefore loved...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, beauty, fantasy, joy, nature,
Form: Couplet
THE CATERPILLARThis caterpillar
Fell out the tree
Fell out the tree
Fell out the tree
This caterpillar
Fell out the tree
Now he can’t see
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, 3rd grade, insect, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Hey Diddle DiddleHey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon--had no fiddle,
The little dog laughed, got smashed as a Poodle,
the cow laughed a little, and found the fiddle,
The cat played to Nero,...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, fantasy, humor, imagery, irony,
Form: Ghazal
Buckle My ShoeOne, two, buckle my shoe, a lesson to be learned;
Three, four, and so many more - times the world has turned.
Cross the laces, make some loops, feed the laces through;
Tighten them up...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, childhood, education, father son,
Form: Couplet
Jesting Jack, Jinxed JillJack and Jill were brother and sister, whose environs were hilly and green;
And they groomed horses and worked in gardens, oft 'til a moonlight scene.
They did daily chores on a farm, in the outlying regions...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, children, fairy, fantasy, farm,
Form: Couplet
Pumpkin Meter
Categories:
humor, nursery rhyme, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Zephyr"Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. Children learn as they help you imagine" ...
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Categories:
fantasy, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Redcap
Categories:
nursery rhyme, character, dark, death, fairy,
Form: Rhyme
Funny Bunny
He was a happy bunny,
personality sunny.
He ate a carrot,
became a parrot.
Now, isn’t that just too funny?...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, animal, bird, cute, food,
Form: Limerick
The Bottle Gourd RhymeI am tall, I am slender,
Light Green but not cucumber.
Have a snout, have a tail,
Found in market & even retail.
Packed with Vitamin C, K & Calcium,
I punch my weight in nutrition.
Eat me & get a...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Wriggily Piggily
Oh! You wriggle
like a little piggle!
When you wiggle,
you make me giggle!
When you jiggle
you prompt a squiggle
and then I sniggle
at your marble miggle.
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Categories:
animal, nonsense, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
No Oats
I have heard that mairsy doats
and sweet little doesy doats.
I'd agree that cowsy doats.
Why do lamzay noats?...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, animal, cute, food, fun,
Form: Dodoitsu
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